Hönökaka ''(

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

: Hönö bread or Hönö cake)'' is a type of

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flat soft white pricked

bread Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour (usually wheat) and water, usually by baking. Throughout recorded history and around the world, it has been an important part of many cultures' diet. It is one of the oldest human-made f ...

. It is named after the island town

Hönö Hönö is a locality situated in Öckerö Municipality, Västra Götaland County Västra Götaland County ( sv, Västra Götalands län) is a county or '' län'' on the western coast of Sweden. The county is the second most populous of Swede ...

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 Pågen is a Swedish bakery company founded in 1878 by Anders and Matilda Påhlsson. The company started off as a small bakery in Malmö in the southern province of Scania. Their bakeries are run by around, 1350 employees, and are located in Malm� ...

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

Torslanda Torslanda is an urban district situated in Gothenburg Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 10,129 inhabitants in 2005. Etymology A Norse pagan place of sacrifice to the God Thor was once located here, which gave rise to the name ...

in 1960.

The bread was baked on Hönö by the area's fishing and farming families. The flat bread was easy to both store and eat during fishing trips on the sea. Just as with

crispbread Crispbread ( sv, knäckebröd (lit. crack bread), ''hårt bröd'' (hard bread), ''hårdbröd'', ''spisbröd'' (stove bread), ''knäcke'', da, knækbrød, no, knekkebrød, fi, näkkileipä or näkkäri, et, näkileib, is, hrökkbrauð, fo, k ...

, 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.

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