Kona Historical Society

its a good experience to learn how to make a portuguese bread. My boys really have fun. Staff are very friendly n accomodating. Its a long preparation u need a lot of pt to make. If ur planning to go make sure u come @10am so u learn how to make it. Then come back in an hr go to Kona royal coffee mill when ur waiting then come back around noin the bread will be ready that time.

Ok… Here’s a great THURSDAY in Kona for you and your family: First spend your morning here and tour the museum store, the coffee farm, and lastly make Portuguese bread in the stone oven with the friendliest volunteers you will ever meet.
Then leave for lunch a few miles away and eat ridiculously delicious authentic Hawaiian food served by great people at a long standing Kona family restaurant, Kaaloa’s Super J’s, which is a Food Network hotspot and a must stop for Guy Fieri when he’s in the big Island.
Then at noonish go back when the bread comes out of the stone oven, buy a loaf or three, and take them back to your hotel or time share. Lastly, stop in to Safeway or the farmers market for sandwich fixings and make dinner out of fresh and delicious sandwiches with the Portuguese bread while you sit by your favorite pool, patio, or beach.
You end up with an incredible Thursday, an awesome experience, two delicious and dare I say cheap Big Island meals, and a Hawaii exclusive experience!

I stopped by and the facility was closed. So why
I writing a review? Because Lynette was out back preparing their wood burning oven for Thursday’s bread baking. Lynette took her time to describe what she as doing as well as the process. She was informative and accommodating.

I got a lot out of my visit on 10÷10÷13, really liked learning the art of rolling the dough from the demonstrator who also was very informative with the history of Portuguese bread and stone oven bread making. Although it starts at 10am, my party and I arrived at around 10:50am and there was plenty of dough still left. I found it to be very therapeutic and earthy to be involved in making something that is so simple as they use very basic ingredients for the sweet, wheat and white bread.
I can’t say enough, stay there and hangout and chat with other participants and be the firsts to sample and purchase the bread – make sure to take enough CASH, $ 7 for each loaf – watch as they take the baked bread out and see the different looking shapes as some are rounder and puffier than others, it’s not easy to see spot the ones you made. I had a great time and the location is beautiful, very «Little House in the Prairie». Want to mention Mana, a black terrier mix, who was really friendly and added so much to my visit. Thanks to all the guys there, super friendly, helpful, educative, generous, patient and very professional. This was one of my favorite activities I did on this trip. Thanks again and I wish I had bought more bread! Missing it now as it was consumed before we could get it home!

Visited April 11, 2013, 10:30 am
Keep in mind, that the Kona Historical Society has two physical locations 1) Kona Coffee Living History Farm and 2) Greenwell Farm Museum location. The location of the Stone Oven, where they cook the Portuguese Sweet Bread is the Greenwell Farm location.
Every Thursday from about 11:00 am the volunteers as well as visitors begin rolling the dough into round balls and placed into pans. The first batch of bread usually goes into the oven around Noon, and the first batch of hot bread is ready by about 12:30 pm.
Tip: Do not wait in the parking lot tent for the bread to come up to the roadside, go down into the pasture, a short five-​minute walk and buy the bread there. Bread sells for $ 7.00 a pan for White, Wheat or Sweet Bread.
With Greenwell Coffee Farms right next door, lay-​out a towel in the pasture and enjoy the peace and tranquility with Hot Bread and Coffee. My recommendation is waiting for the Sweet Bread. That is usually the last batch of pans that go into the oven.

OMFG go get their fresh baked bread Thursday’s at noon. The Portuguese sweet bread is soooo ridic good. You can help make it too if you come around 945AM on Thursdays. If you just want to eat it, go later (noon on) to pick up piping hot bread, baked in an outdoor oven, kneaded and shaped by hand. It will make you salivate and you won’t be able to stop yourself from plucking it out of the pan into your mouth– nevermind the burn on your palate that you will get!
Yummilicious Factor = A+

Check them thursdays around 3pm for freshly baked Portuguese bread. Delicious!

$ 7 on Thursdays at the Greenwell Coffee site:
(around 1pm, usually available.)
HOMEMADE Portuguese Bread.
Wonderfully amazing, warm, and oh so tasty.
We bought 2 loaves.
For the love of the buddha, don’t get the ‘whole wheat’ version– you’re on vacation, right???