Folar - 2016

Folar is a traditional Portuguese bread served at Easter. The recipe varies from region to region and it may be sweet or salty in the North Country.
The sweet folars like the folar from Olhão, consists of seven layers with melted sugar and cinnamon, and the more common folar with anise and cinnamon.
It is traditional to offer folar to godfathers and priests at Easter, in imitation of the distribution of bread at the Last Supper. Folar is sometimes served with a boiled egg, that symbolically represents rebirth and the Resurrection.