Polynesian Sweet Bread {Bread Machine Recipe} (2024)

FAQs

Why does Hawaiian bread taste sweet? ›

The recipe is based on Portuguese sweet bread, which is super rich from plenty of eggs, butter, and sugar. And, in case you're wondering, yes! King's Hawaiian really did start in Hawaii.

The major difference that separates them from other dinner rolls is a distinct sweetness. Big King's Hawaiian fans will also tout the texture, its flaky outside and fluffy interior, as a reason it's so delectable.

When I came to the US for the first time, I saw bags of “Hawaiian bread” that looked similar to the “pao doce” from my childhood. Only a few years later I learned that indeed those are all the same, brought both to Hawaii and New England by Portuguese immigrants.

You add the ingredients, and the bread machine makes and bakes the bread in one handy appliance. Liquid ingredients are added first, then oils or fats, dry ingredients, and finally yeast (if your recipe calls for it). The machine will mix, knead, rise, and bake the dough to a beautifully soft bread with a crisp crust.

Are Hawaiian rolls the same as brioche? They are similar since Hawaiian rolls and brioche are both enriched doughs, meaning they include eggs and/or butter. The main difference is that Hawaiian rolls are sweeter and include pineapple juice to give them a super yummy flavor.

Additionally, when dough is fermented slower, the complex starches and sugars can ferment fully. These fermented sugars create an alcohol-based ingredient known as maltose, which works to make the bread taste sweeter while also deepening the aroma.

Keep the product inside the container and just remove the plastic wrapping! Place this into a preheated oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 2-3 minutes for the rolls and 3-5 minutes for the bread, depending on how warm you want it. You will then have a sweet smelling home to enjoy your rolls.

Maui reflects the widespread popularity of banana bread in general—and then some. (As Hawai'i Magazine writes, “On Maui, banana bread is serious business.”) Some speculate that it's due not only to the glut of bananas around the island, but also because of the type: the apple banana.

“That's a tradition from the old country,” Goretti said. Goretti was referring to her native country of Portugal, where it is customary to eat sweet bread with a hard-boiled egg baked into its center on Easter Sunday. The egg symbolizes new life and the resurrection of Christ.

What is the sweet bread eaten in Italy? ›

King's Hawaiian is a Los Angeles-based family-owned and operated bakery, known chiefly for its Hawaiian bread. It was founded by Robert Taira in Hilo, Hawaii, in 1950.

Making bread from a machine is marginally cheaper than buying it, as long as you eat bread frequently enough to offset the cost of the appliance. Specifically, I see this as an investment that's smart for households that go through bread quickly, like large families or homes with multiple roommates.

Most bread machine manuals and cookbooks call for bread flour rather than all-purpose flour. King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour, because it's higher in gluten than national brands of all-purpose flour, works perfectly in the bread machine.

Amylase, as well as being found in pancreatic fluid, is also found in saliva, therefore when you are chewing the bread, the amylase in saliva interacts with the starch in the bread, breaking it down to produce simple sugars - these simple sugars hence make the bread taste sweet.

We are the Original Hawaiian Sweet Bread makers and offer three distinct flavors. Our most popular is the classic Original Hawaiian Sweet. This is our signature recipe from the 1950s and is the base for our other two flavors: Honey Wheat and Savory Butter.

Customers like the taste, freshness, and softness of the bread. For example, they mention it's delicious, slightly sweet, and buttery.

When water is added, enzymes in the yeast (if it's a yeasted dough) and enzymes in the flour, unlink the sugars, so they enter the dough as sugar which can be tasted and which can be used as food for yeast. Something like brioche or challah bread should absolutely taste slightly sweet.