DISH RESEARCH · Bread
Acema Andina
Andean Venezuelan sweet wheat bread with spiced papelón syrup.
About Acema Andina
Acema andina is a sweet bread associated with Venezuela’s Andes. This version includes wheat flour and bran, enriched with butter, egg and milk powder, and sweetened with spiced papelón syrup.
Papelón supplies a caramel-like sweetness, with cinnamon, cloves and allspice giving warm fragrance. The dairy butter adds richness to the wheat dough.
The bread has a fine, soft, slightly moist crumb beneath a thin golden crust. The selected formula forms rounded rolls, reflecting the source’s described Andean bread presentation.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten), Egg, Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Acema Andina
Panes Venezolanos’ bran-enriched Andean acema.
- Bread wheat flourBase
- Wheat branBase
- WaterLiquid
- Instant yeastLeaveningIngredient page not linked
- SaltSeasoning
- EggBinder
- Unsalted butterCooking medium
- SugarSweetener
- Milk powderLiquid
- PapelónSweetener · Spiced syrup
- ClovesSeasoning · Spiced syrup
- AllspiceSeasoning · Spiced syrup
- Cinnamon stickSeasoning · Spiced syrup
- MolassesSweetener · Spiced syrup
- Vegetable oilCooking medium
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Bread wheat flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Broader wheat-flour candidate
- Wheat bran: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Instant yeast: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Exact catalogue ingredient mapping unresolved
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Egg: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed
- Unsalted butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Milk powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed
- Papelón: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader panela/papelón cane-sugar candidate
- Cloves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Allspice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Cinnamon stick: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Molasses: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Named only in syrup method; amount/form unspecified
- Vegetable oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Method-only dough coating/greasing; botanical source unspecified
Origins & food traditions
The source identifies acema with the inherited bread-making tradition of the Venezuelan Andes.
Cuisines & regions
- Venezuelan Andean cuisine
- Venezuelan CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Andean Venezuelan CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.