Fairy bread

Fairy bread
Type White bread
Place of origin Australia, New Zealand
Main ingredients White bread, margarine or butter, sprinkles or hundreds and thousands
Cookbook:Fairy bread  Fairy bread

Fairy bread is sliced white bread spread with margarine or butter and covered with sprinkles or hundreds and thousands which stick to the spread.[1] It is typically cut into four triangles.[2]

It is commonly served at children's parties in Australia and New Zealand.[3][4] The origin of the term is not known, but it may come from the poem 'Fairy Bread' in Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses, published in 1885.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Stott Despoja, Shirley. (March 2012). "Third Age: Bread and Butter and Hundreds and Thousands". The Adelaide Review. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Australian Words: Fairy Bread", Australian National Dictionary Centre, ANU.
  3. ↑ Jacky Adams (6 February 2009). "The War Against Fairy Bread". Sydney Morning Herald.
  4. ↑ Ursula Dubosarsky (2001). Fairy Bread. Mitch Vane (illus.). Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-131175-3.