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Fairy bread
Jan. 20th, 2006 12:36 pmFairy bread is - in its traditional form- just sliced bread with butter and hundreds and thousands sprinkled heavily on it (dollar fives? sprinkles? Anyhow, those minute round beads that come all multicoloured and are mostly sugar and that go on kid's birthday cakes. I get confused with terminology outside Australia on this one).
Last time I was involved in a fairy bread discussion a disputation arose as to whether the crusts were left on these triangles of pure nutrition, or were chopped off. All I can say is that in my family if we insisted in having the crusts off for our birthday parties we were made to eat those crusts anyway. We would take a big bowl of crusts and munch our way through them while watching The King's Outlaw and the Samurai and Robin Hood and develop a surprising lack of interest in either lunch of dinner. All our hair became very curly except for my kid sister's - we must have eaten her share of those crusts.
Anyhow, these days fairy bread can be more sophisticated. I have seen it with nutella or honey spread over the butter and holding the sprinkles. I have seen it with pure dark chocolate sprinkled on gourmet bread (adults only version). And I have seen it with jaw-breaking cashews (litle cake decorating ornaments - bigger than hundreds and thousands, but still round) cunningly giving the bread a hint of silver and gold. I have made it in space-age shapes, myself, for a CSFG launch (biscuit cutters get very messy from fairy bread).
Hundreds and thousands on little triangles of white bread is still the Aussie classic, though.
Last time I was involved in a fairy bread discussion a disputation arose as to whether the crusts were left on these triangles of pure nutrition, or were chopped off. All I can say is that in my family if we insisted in having the crusts off for our birthday parties we were made to eat those crusts anyway. We would take a big bowl of crusts and munch our way through them while watching The King's Outlaw and the Samurai and Robin Hood and develop a surprising lack of interest in either lunch of dinner. All our hair became very curly except for my kid sister's - we must have eaten her share of those crusts.
Anyhow, these days fairy bread can be more sophisticated. I have seen it with nutella or honey spread over the butter and holding the sprinkles. I have seen it with pure dark chocolate sprinkled on gourmet bread (adults only version). And I have seen it with jaw-breaking cashews (litle cake decorating ornaments - bigger than hundreds and thousands, but still round) cunningly giving the bread a hint of silver and gold. I have made it in space-age shapes, myself, for a CSFG launch (biscuit cutters get very messy from fairy bread).
Hundreds and thousands on little triangles of white bread is still the Aussie classic, though.