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Hawaiian malasadas with various fillings. In 1878, Portuguese laborers from Madeira and the Azores started to immigrate to Hawaii to work on the plantations. [7] They brought with them their traditional foods, including fried doughnuts they called malassadas ― now commonly spelled as malasadas.
Leonard's is known as an "old-fashioned, plain-Jane bakery" [3] that popularized pastries and desserts in Portuguese cuisine, like Portuguese sweet bread and pão doce meat wraps, [2] sometimes with a Hawaiian cultural borrowing like haupia, coconut, and guava filled malasadas. [4] [5]
The foods of this feast typically include malasadas (pastries), paodoce (sweet bread), bean soup, Portuguese sausages, and bowls of beef and fish marinated in wine. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The best-known Portuguese contribution to Hawaiian culture is the ukulele , based on the traditional Portuguese braguinha ( cavaquinho ).
The Portuguese immigrants came to Hawaii from the Azores in the late 19th century, [30] introducing their foods with an emphasis on pork, tomatoes and chili peppers, and built forno, their traditional beehive oven, to make pão doce, the Portuguese sweet bread and malasada. [5] Whalers brought in salted fish, which ultimately became lomi-lomi ...
In 1878, Portuguese laborers from Madeira and the Azores went to Hawaii to work in the plantations. These immigrants brought their traditional foods with them, including a fried dough pastry called "malasada." [15] Today, there are numerous bakeries in the Hawaiian islands specializing in malasadas.
Traditionally the people of Madeira eat Malasadas on Terça-feira Gorda (Shrove Tuesday), the reason for making malasadas was to use up all the lard and sugar in the house, in preparation for Lent (much in the same way the tradition of Pancake Day in the UK originated on Shrove Tuesday), Malasadas are sold alongside the main carnival parade on ...
Poi donuts/ malasadas, mochi; Portuguese sweet bread or "Hawaiian sweet rolls" outside of Hawaii [26] Spanish rolls—a favorite staple to share in the office to go with coffee [27] Snow puffies - A variation of the Napoleon pastry
The business is known for selling confections of Portuguese origins. Including Malasadas, Pastel de Nata, Easter Sweet Bread, as well as other traditional baked goods.