Hönökaka

Hönökaka (English: Hönö bread or Hönö cake) is a type of Swedish flat soft white pricked bread. It is named after the island town Hönö in Gothenburg's northern archipelago, and was originally baked by the people living on said archipelago's different islands. The bread is baked in round flat pieces, but is normally sold as half-circles. In 2014, industrially made hönökaka was produced by two manufactures, Åkes Äkta Hönökakor and Pågen.[1]

Hönökaka
Industrial made hönökaka
TypeBread
CourseMain course, side dish, or snack
Place of originSweden
Region or stateGothenburg archipelago
Cooking time 1 hour 35 min to 1 hour 55 min
Serving temperatureCold
Main ingredients
Food energy
(per 117 g serving)
359 kcal (1503 kJ)Pågen.se
Nutritional value
(per 117 g serving)
Protein9.4 g
Fat6.3 g
Carbohydrate64.4 g

Åke "Grytens-Karl" Johannesson began his bakery business on Hönö in 1934, and moved his operations to Torslanda in 1960.[2]

Hönökaka was stored in the same way as crispbread.

The bread was baked on Hönö by the area's fishing and farming families.[2] The flat bread was easy to both store and eat during fishing trips on the sea.[1] Just as with crispbread, the hönökaka was holed so that they could be hung from the rafters on poles. The bread was stored for a long time and was often eaten even after it gone stale and hard. Homemade hönökaka is usually slightly firmer than industrially baked.

References
  1. "Hönökaka". Smaka Sverige (in Swedish). 12 September 2018. Archived from the original on 18 August 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  2. Källgård, Anders (2013). Sveriges öar [Sweden's islands] (3rd ed.). p. 87.
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