When I was a child in Pico Azores

My mother like every other woman on the island, baked bread in this type of hot tile oven. She would burn wood in it, then remove all the embers and bake bread on banana leaves. It was nice on the cold winter day, because it would warm our little house up. I am not sure if now there is home heating there, I know that in the 70's and 80's there was not, at least not that I had ever seen. I went back to visit in 02, and it was very cold. There was still no heating.

  we loved eating hot right out of the oven with  butter.

     

my parents had 7 children at that time, so my mother had to bake a lot of bread, for the 9 of us to eat.