Portuguese Corn Bread

[Malcolm Loades]

We were in Portugal earlier this week and had a fantastic bread with our
cheese, quince jelly and olive starters (does anywhere else on earth eat
cheese as a starter rather than after the main course?). My wife told
them how good the bread was but with our poor Portuguese and their
equally poor English we struggled a bit :-) "Pop corn" was about the
only word they knew to describe it, so I'm pretty sure it was corn
bread.

Over the past couple of days I've searched for recipes and tried to
replicate the bread without success. I've ignored many recipes with
pictures which show a hard smooth crust - the crust on the bread we had
resembled the sort of crust you get on soda bread. Very rough and
uneven. I tried making it using bicarbonate of soda and although the
crust looked promising the bread tasted nothing like we'd had there.

I'm pretty sure that is was yeast leavened and a yeast leavened loaf
tasted near to what we'd had but didn't have the right crust.

Has anyone got a recipe I could try?

Malcolm

[Boron Elgar]

On Sun, 5 May 2013 20:36:01 +0100, Malcolm Loades <dev...@loades.eu>
wrote:

I have not tried this sort of recipe for ages, so have none at hand,
however it is a common Portuguese bread, or broa de milho.

You can google Portuguese corn bread and look through the images
options to see one that looks like what you got, then try any recipe
linked to it.

Here are a couple of links I found with random recipes.

http://foodblog.paulchens.org/2010/10/broa-portuguese-corn-bread/

http://portuguesebreads.blogspot.com/2012/05/broa-de-milho-corn-bread.html

And here is a link to google groups to a discussion and recipe about
the bread that came from this group about 7 years ago.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.bread.recipes/browse_thread/thread/9c2862b5bf1c6426/d122c666aa92f78b?hl=en&q=portuguese+corn+bread+group:alt.bread.recipes#d122c666aa92f78b

http://tinyurl.com/cz664sl

Boron

[graham]

"Malcolm Loades" <dev...@loades.eu> wrote in message
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I was going to post a recipe but Boron, abr, posted a link to a past
discussion where I posted a recipe.
Graham

[Boron Elgar]

;)

[AriesVal]

any good?

http://www.food.com/recipe/broa-portuguese-cornbread-113783

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