"We started with one oven, a five a.m. alarm, and a scooter basket of pão for the neighbours."
Rosa began baking out of her kitchen on a lane behind the Fontainhas chapel in 2011, selling warm pão to neighbours before the school run. By the second year the queue was longer than her kitchen counter, so her son built a proper wood-fired oven in the yard and the counter you see today grew up around it.
The bakes haven't changed much since — pão and katre pão every morning, bebinca on the weekend, a batch of perad tart whenever the guava sellers come through. We still close on Mondays, because an oven needs a day off too.
