Remember that list of Goals for Oz created by Tamar? Well #5 was eat fairy bread. I haven't found any yet (apparently its more of a home-made thing) but I did find these lovely treats at the store today and decided to buy them. They taste a bit like a fig newton. There is a lot of dough and a little jam. Pretty tasty but not my all-time favorite. I will still aim to make the fairy bread, though. Don't you worry, Tamar!
Haha, what is the deal with fairy stuff in Australia? after a brief lookie loo on the web and I found this:
ReplyDeleteChildren like fairy bread because of their desire to emulate a poem entitled "Fairy Bread" in the collection of poetry A Child's Garden of Verses and Underwoods (1913, but some say 1885), written by a famous Scottish writer names Robert Louis Stevenson.
To make fairy bread, all a child has to do is take soft white slices of bread and butter one side completely. They then cut the bread slices diagonally so that all the pieces are triangles. The final step is to sprinkle each piece with multicolored candy sprinkles known in Australia and New Zealand as "hundreds and thousands." Some instructions also call for removing the crust from the bread, and allow for using cookie batter and other dough as a substitute for white bread.
For visuals, look here: http://berryfood.blogspot.com/2009/03/fairy-bread.html