Portuguese sweet bread (portuguese: pão doce "sweet bread" or massa sovada "kneaded dough") is a bread made with milk, sugar, eggs, yeast, flour and sometimes lemon peel to produce a subtly sweet lightly textured loaf or rolls. a slightly different recipe is made during easter that is known as folar and often contains a hard-boiled egg. the bread was brought to hawaii by portuguese immigrants from madeira and the azores, under the name hawaiian rolls, and are now considered a quintessential dish in hawaiian cuisine and widely eaten throughout the united states.portuguese sweet bread is traditionally made in madeira and the azores around christmas, and the easter version is made around ea...

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