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Featured Activities: Make Portuguese Sweetbread
Each Thursday, the Kona Historical Society in Kealakekua offers an engaging, hands-on bread baking demonstration using its outdoor Portuguese bread oven. A team of dedicated breadbaking volunteers prepare the Portuguese Sweetbread dough. The community is invited to attend between 10 a.m. and noon to participate in rolling and shaping the dough. Then the bread is put into the large, wood-fired stone oven, or forno, to bake. At 1 p.m. the bread is taken out of the oven and sold to a lineup of eager customers. The bread baking is a celebration of the Portuguese culture and this weekly event is the perfect time to learn about the people who came from the Azores and Madeira to work the sugar cane plantations and whose descendents went on to become cattle ranchers, dairy farmers and an integral part of Hawai`iʻs culture. For more about the Kona Historical Society and its other activities and cultural offerings, visit konahistorical.org.