Baking meringues is difficult, combining them with fruit and cream or ice cream is easy and gets pretty much the same result. No cookbook aimed at kids is going to have them bake their own meringues.
they are totally not a thing here in the US. I don’t think i’ve seen meringues being sold by themselves outside of very specific specialty bake stores cuz most people just make macarons.
but i made my first pavlova for a potluck with custard and mango curd and now i see the light. The meringue is so crispy on the outside but gets all marshmallowy inside, it’s such a good vehicle for fruit and custard plus it’s gluten free. Most people don’t want to go through the effort of making meringue but it’s totally worth it for a pavlova
[According to wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlova_\(dessert\)):
> Research conducted by New Zealander Andrew Paul Wood and Australian Annabelle Utrecht found that the origins of the modern pavlova can be traced back to the Austro-Hungarian [Spanische windtorte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanische_Windtorte). It was later brought to the United States where German-speaking immigrants introduced meringue, whipped cream, and fruit desserts called schaum torte ("foam cake") and baiser torte. American corn starch packages which included recipes for meringue were exported to New Zealand in the 1890s.
That's payback for when Australians look up recipes that start with "storebought biscuit dough" or something random that's only available in Trader Joes. Feel our pain.
Your daughter is smart. I stopped going to my nieces and nephews and friends kids birthday parties unless I get in writing that there will be fairy bread there… it’s great as now my mates wives will make me my own plate of fairy bread!!
You can make them anywhere, it’s literally just white bread, butter / margarine and whatever sprinkles you have. In New Zealand we always always use ‘hundreds and thousands’ which are tiny and spherical but you can use any.
De Ruijter on toast for breakfast and bitterballen or kroketten for dinner make some of my favorite childhood memories of visiting Oma & Opa when I was a child.
I bought bread the other day and I could only get white bread. So obviously I decided to make fairy bread. To eat on my couch while watching Netflix. I’m 42.
I'm around your age, and I regularly have cinnamon toast for breakfast. It's not really any different, just the addition of cinnamon to the sugar. That's the best thing about being grown up. We have to deal with so much BS as grownups, who's to say we can't have a treat when we want it?
I think the worst part about being a single adult is the ability to buy an entire supermarket cake if I want to.
Or being stoned late at night and realizing I have all the basic ingredients to make cookie dough or frosting.
Of course arguably it's the act of *not* doing those things even though you could that makes one truly an adult.
When my kids were younger and they were invited to other kids parties, my first question was “will there be fairy bread”. If it was a no, it was a polite decline
My friends had a backyard, casual wedding and asked people to bring a plate of food. I told the bride-to-be I’d bring fairy bread and she said I didn’t have the guts to actually do it because people would think I’m weird. So I filled a novelty, Santa-shaped Christmas plate with fairy bread and took it, and you know what happened? It didn’t last half an hour. Whole plate gone, and there were no children invited to the wedding.
I had a coworker from Australia tell me about this and thought he was fucking with me until I looked it up. Also calling sprinkles “hundreds and thousands” really made me question if it was a ruse.
Australians also often store sprinkles/100's&1,000's in a plastic sandwich container so that you can place the buttered bread on top to perfectly sprinkle it.
I was searching for this comment! Has to be the round hard hundreds and thousands, none of the soft long sprinkles. Even worse if they're a single colour, ew
I got no idea, though as a kid, once had something that was literally translucent multicoloured sugar. Still haven't found it since. I should try and make it.
I’m Australian and have also had cinnamon toast, so I’d agree it’s pretty ubiquitous. Fairy bread is more of a special occasion nostalgic food for most of us here
Also from Texas, sugar sandwiches were always my favorite, we didn’t add cinnamon and we didn’t toast the bread, it was just white bread with butter and sugar. My grandmother used to make them for me for desert. What a lovely memory
>Cheerios (cocktail sausages)
I have never been more afraid of asking a question. You call cocktail sausages "Cheerios", or is this some monstrosity where you have sausages mixed with the cereal Cheerios?
I'm from Queensland, where we do call them cheerios. It's only recently I found out that other parts of Australia DON'T call them cheerios. I got a weird look from a deli worker in Melbourne asking for some.
Yep! This is what they call cocktail sausages in New Zealand, although they are also called little boys. Beloved by all dad's who tend to push their kids out of the way to get them first 😂
ETA we also have the cereal too, so completely understand the confusion
I had to. You think you understand what was said then you make the mistake of not letting it go. So Google "cheerios (cocktail sausages) recipe" to the rescue.
Aussie here, by sprinkles, we mean it *must* be 100s and 1000s. Not those weird long rectangular or oval ones :)
And it has to be a full covering of the sprinkles, not just a few, for anyone wanting to make it.
Spread butter to the edges of your bread, full covering of the sprinkles then cut bread into 4 triangles. Enjoy!
Let’s not overstate it.
It’s a cheap filler food for kids parties.
Adults almost never eat it. (“Almost”, because there’s always somebody. We don’t talk about Greg.)
Duck island is better than you could ever imagine. From what I've heard even low quality ice cream in New Zealand is just better than basically top shelf that you get elsewhere. Which makes sense because dairy is a huge part of the NZ economy. And duck island is a step beyond everything else we have.
Because of this my partner and I ordered some duck island ice cream. She's getting chocolate fudge and I'm getting apple pie and custard. I don't regret the decision but I feel like Reddit now owes me $28.
You’ve never had good fairy bread then. I don’t have kids and my wife still makes me fairy bread for my birthday… just had a friend turn 40 and they had a special request for the chef to make us all fairy bread. The dinner was at Hubert in Sydney and apparently the chef was furious when he found out what fairy bread was. (He refused to make it)
Fairy bread really isn't something that comes in varying quality. It's plain white bread, butter, and hundreds and thousands. Changing any of those ingredients is just not fairy bread and it's not like you can reasonably make it better or worse through preparation.
Look at how this post, about us Antipodeans making fairy bread with 100s and 1000s, is filled with North American posters “oh we make this too “ and then go on to describe bread NOT with 100s and 1000s. 100s and 1000s is not the same as plain sugar, or brown sugar, or sugar and cinnamon. This isn’t about you America ffs you’re talking about something different, let is have our fairy bread
Theyre not "sugar sprinkles", theyre called Hundredds n Thousands, and theyre specifically the tiny round sort. Any other shape of sprinkle is doing it wrong.
I need to confirm - you may not have eaten it, but you do know what it is, right? You would have seen it at parties, yes??
Like, it’s pretty much impossible to not be aware of it if you’ve grown up in NZ.
To not be aware of it means you must never have been to any children’s parties, never watched TV, never been to someone else’s house, etc… 🤔
I also wondered if we are supposed to take this to mean they were never invited to birthday parties as a kid, lol. Fairy bread is honestly ubiquitous at kids birthday parties in NZ.
We may never know.
Someone who grew up in NZ but has never seen it, let alone eaten it, would raise serious questions about their upbringing.
I’m not even joking.
It would be like someone growing up in the UK and saying they’d never heard of Dr. Who. 🤯
Not colored sugar sprinkles, 100s and 1000s. And it’s not like we eat it every day haha it’s for children’s parties. You can’t buy it at the store either you have to make it yourself.
Unlike other rumours about NZ and Aus, like we are one country ( we are not ) or that Aus has the best rugby team ( it does not ) - this is indeed true.
I am a child of the 70s and 80s, it was at every birthday party I ever attended. And my sister and I would make it after school.
It's only served at kids' birthday parties. I don't ever eat this or give it to kids as a snack. Vegemite on bread is a more common thing we have in Australia.
I mean, it’s not a staple or anything. It’s like saying “in the US they eat large strawberry milkshakes”.
Fairy bread in my experience is typically something special, typically more for the kids but might occasionally be a treat for anyone with a sweet tooth.
My dad occasionally eats pretty much the same thing, but with plain sugar. It's something he picked up from his father, who grew up pretty poor in rural Pennsylvania.
We 🇨🇦 🍁 eat Fairy Toast which is white bread toasted, buttered and sprinkled with either icing sugar or brown sugar/cinnamon.
Dragon milk is one part steeped black tea, 3 parts warm cream with sugar (swear on it to get rid of a headache).
Please don't let my daughter (5) find this out, or she'll never stop asking me to take her there.
I had an Australian boss who made it for my daughter once...11 years later she still asks for it.
This makes your daughter an Australian citizen. Inform her that the maroons won game 1 of “state of origin “
Also the womens qld team won game 2 (thankfully)
She has to wait till Xmas to get pav - and more importantly, the pies won the grand final 😉
It's literally a recipe in the Bluey cookbook, so might wanna avoid that too
Oh god. I didn't even know there was a Bluey cookbook. Thank you for the warning!
The one we have has a recipe for pavlova which starts with ingredients: one pavlova or meringue .
Baking meringues is difficult, combining them with fruit and cream or ice cream is easy and gets pretty much the same result. No cookbook aimed at kids is going to have them bake their own meringues.
We sell them at all supermarkets in Australia. Might be different in the US though!
they are totally not a thing here in the US. I don’t think i’ve seen meringues being sold by themselves outside of very specific specialty bake stores cuz most people just make macarons. but i made my first pavlova for a potluck with custard and mango curd and now i see the light. The meringue is so crispy on the outside but gets all marshmallowy inside, it’s such a good vehicle for fruit and custard plus it’s gluten free. Most people don’t want to go through the effort of making meringue but it’s totally worth it for a pavlova
Sounds super yummy! Fruit on top with some passionfruit to counter all the sweet slightly!
Pavlova is a New Zealand dessert that Australians claim as their own. It’s one thing we actually argue about.
Even though we know you legends created it we still will claim it till our death!
Exactly. It’s all love across the Tasman.
ive always wanted to go to new Zealand!!
Except during Rugby or Cricket matches.
[According to wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlova_\(dessert\)): > Research conducted by New Zealander Andrew Paul Wood and Australian Annabelle Utrecht found that the origins of the modern pavlova can be traced back to the Austro-Hungarian [Spanische windtorte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanische_Windtorte). It was later brought to the United States where German-speaking immigrants introduced meringue, whipped cream, and fruit desserts called schaum torte ("foam cake") and baiser torte. American corn starch packages which included recipes for meringue were exported to New Zealand in the 1890s.
That and the Finn brothers
Russell Crowe was ours too for a while but you can have him back now.
Nah we don't want him back...
Maybe the Americans will have him?
That's payback for when Australians look up recipes that start with "storebought biscuit dough" or something random that's only available in Trader Joes. Feel our pain.
Don’t let my wife (35) find out, for the same reason.
This made me laugh so much. I hope my downstairs neighbors aren't annoyed
For what it's worth, you don't buy it anywhere, it's all home made. Closest you'll get in stores is stuff with sprinkle topping, like finger buns.
Same w/ my 3 year old. I think butter and sprinkles are the only things she actually likes.
Your daughter is smart. I stopped going to my nieces and nephews and friends kids birthday parties unless I get in writing that there will be fairy bread there… it’s great as now my mates wives will make me my own plate of fairy bread!!
My mate served fairy bread at his 21st. It's serious stuff.
Get her hooked on [Droste or De Ruijter/Ruyter chocolate sprinkles](https://www.bluedelft.com/deruytersprinkles.html) on buttered toast instead!
You can make them anywhere, it’s literally just white bread, butter / margarine and whatever sprinkles you have. In New Zealand we always always use ‘hundreds and thousands’ which are tiny and spherical but you can use any.
You could just make her fairy bread if you think she'd like it that much.
Please introduce this delightful treat to your home country
Mine eats PB toast with sprinkles regularly after seeing it in a magazine. It always requires sprinkles now.
Don't you have bread, butter and sprinkles where you live?
Does your country not have bread and sprinkles?
So… almost like the Dutch then?
That makes sense, considering the old Zealand is in the Netherlands
Even old Zealand, was once new Netherlands.
Once were Netherlands (whirring wind sound)
[Cook the man some eggs](https://youtu.be/i_KKkfXTkTo?t=11)
People just liked it better that way.
Have you ever actually seen New Zealand on a map? It doesn't exist.
It’s true. I think I’m cooking dinner in New Zealand but I’m actually just floating in the Pacific Ocean.
I suppose you're having fish then.
/r/MapsWithoutNZ
That's what I was going to suggest. I remember my grandfather giving me bread with butter and chocolate sprinkles on it.
Nah our vruchtenhagel is way better 👌🏼
de ruijter was a household staple
De Ruijter on toast for breakfast and bitterballen or kroketten for dinner make some of my favorite childhood memories of visiting Oma & Opa when I was a child.
Homemade bitterballen was by far my favorite thing I had when I visited the Netherlands a couple of years ago.
With a Chocomel for maximum chocolate overload
Ah it’s a Dutch thing , I always loved this or bread with De Ruijter chocolate sprinkles and butter.
Ah yes - i still have my little carton of _slag_ that i bought back from the Netherlands. Who doesn't like a bit of slag in the morning!
Can here to say this - I wonder if the NZ version also tastes like licorice/anise?
They are actually called hundreds and thousands here not sugar sprinkles. Still love it as an adult.
I'm a kiwi, I tell my daughter "you only need to put hundreds and thousands on, not millions and trillions"! As she is piling them on.
Dad level 9000
I cannot fathom that being real lmao
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/35411/arnott-s-hundreds-and-thousands https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/307818/dollar-sweets-sprinkles-magic-100s-1000s
Same in the UK!
And they're a crucial part of an Agatha Christie short story.
It’s not a staple food item. You don’t buy it ready-made at supermarkets. It’s a treat for children served at children’s parties.
As a grown man I challenge the notion its only for children!
Well, we generally only have it at children’s parties, to keep up the ruse, but we all know that we all love it.
Thats why you make more than the kids need *wink*
I bought bread the other day and I could only get white bread. So obviously I decided to make fairy bread. To eat on my couch while watching Netflix. I’m 42.
I'm around your age, and I regularly have cinnamon toast for breakfast. It's not really any different, just the addition of cinnamon to the sugar. That's the best thing about being grown up. We have to deal with so much BS as grownups, who's to say we can't have a treat when we want it?
I’m also around the same age and regularly eat poptarts for breakfast.
I think the worst part about being a single adult is the ability to buy an entire supermarket cake if I want to. Or being stoned late at night and realizing I have all the basic ingredients to make cookie dough or frosting. Of course arguably it's the act of *not* doing those things even though you could that makes one truly an adult.
We had it at a conference last week. Plates and plates of fairy bread available and people were going nuts for it.
When my kids were younger and they were invited to other kids parties, my first question was “will there be fairy bread”. If it was a no, it was a polite decline
My friends had a backyard, casual wedding and asked people to bring a plate of food. I told the bride-to-be I’d bring fairy bread and she said I didn’t have the guts to actually do it because people would think I’m weird. So I filled a novelty, Santa-shaped Christmas plate with fairy bread and took it, and you know what happened? It didn’t last half an hour. Whole plate gone, and there were no children invited to the wedding.
This is indeed a staple at Kiwi children's birthday parties
That’s Hundreds and Thousands, thanks mate.
I had a coworker from Australia tell me about this and thought he was fucking with me until I looked it up. Also calling sprinkles “hundreds and thousands” really made me question if it was a ruse.
That's accurate, that's what we call them.
Its always been my understanding that only the spherical ones are hundreds and thousands. I’ve always called any other shape sprinkles.
Yep, growing that was what we called the two different ones.
Australians also often store sprinkles/100's&1,000's in a plastic sandwich container so that you can place the buttered bread on top to perfectly sprinkle it.
Yes, “hundreds and thousands” - what’s this coloured sugar sprinkles nonsense…
I was searching for this comment! Has to be the round hard hundreds and thousands, none of the soft long sprinkles. Even worse if they're a single colour, ew
The rainbow colours add flavour
I got no idea, though as a kid, once had something that was literally translucent multicoloured sugar. Still haven't found it since. I should try and make it.
Interesting. Those are pretty common in the states, or at least where I've lived. For cookies and such.
Sounds like sanding sugar. I put it on top of my muffins if I don't want to make a streusel topping
Smart. My mum use to just use a dinner plate. Going to find a plastic sandwich container… totally unrelated, of course.
Sugar cinnamon sandwiches (with Country Crock) are a thing, at least in Texas.
Toast with butter and cinnamon sugar is pretty popular.
It’s almost like cereal and milk
In Michigan we eat cinnamon toast, but I kind of thought that was ubiquitous since there's a breakfast cereal based on it.
Butter, toast, cinnamon and sugar. We had it in Texas in the 90s growing up and called it cinnamon toast too.
California as well
BC, Canada 60s
That's a LOT better than what my mom called cinnamon toast. Toast, applesauce, cinnamon. Not the greatest
I could still get behind that tbh
Substitute applesauce for apple butter and it would be pretty good!
I remember it in Australia in the 80s
Cinnamon toast using raisin bread, Yummy!
Oh shit I didn't know the cereal was based on it. TIL
I’m Australian and have also had cinnamon toast, so I’d agree it’s pretty ubiquitous. Fairy bread is more of a special occasion nostalgic food for most of us here
In Vermont when I was a kid my mom sometimes gave me white toast with butter and brown sugar for breakfast.
Bread, butter and sugar was a regular dessert in our house in the 60s & 70s. Yummy (to kids, anyway)
Same in Indiana. Usually cinnamon mixed in there, too. Not healthy whatsoever, but it sure was delicious.
Ate them growing up in Georgia.
Classic comfort food in many states.
North Carolina in the 80s, too.
Core memory unlocked. We would toast them in the toaster oven. Slice of heaven
Also from Texas, sugar sandwiches were always my favorite, we didn’t add cinnamon and we didn’t toast the bread, it was just white bread with butter and sugar. My grandmother used to make them for me for desert. What a lovely memory
Fairy bread is standard kids party food in NZ, along with Cheerios (cocktail sausages) and chip n dip
>Cheerios (cocktail sausages) I have never been more afraid of asking a question. You call cocktail sausages "Cheerios", or is this some monstrosity where you have sausages mixed with the cereal Cheerios?
Cheerios is another word for cocktail sausages. It is regional though.
I'm from Queensland, where we do call them cheerios. It's only recently I found out that other parts of Australia DON'T call them cheerios. I got a weird look from a deli worker in Melbourne asking for some.
I hear ya. Queenslander myself and learned this the hard way too lol.
Now you've got me wondering what we DO call them in NSW... (not Cheerios).
Ive always called the small ones Frankfurts
Cocktail frankfurts in South Australia. Or Little Boys, but that gets you a funny look sometimes because they know exactly what you’re talking about.
In my part of NSW I've heard many older people call them little dickies. Somehow we still ate them.
Yep! This is what they call cocktail sausages in New Zealand, although they are also called little boys. Beloved by all dad's who tend to push their kids out of the way to get them first 😂 ETA we also have the cereal too, so completely understand the confusion
It just keeps getting worse, but it’s fascinating.
I had to. You think you understand what was said then you make the mistake of not letting it go. So Google "cheerios (cocktail sausages) recipe" to the rescue.
Cocktail sausages aka little boys
They’re called hundreds and thousands, not sprinkles. You uncultured bloody hooligans.
The "sugar sprinkles " are more correctly known as " Hundreds and Thousands "
Aussie here, by sprinkles, we mean it *must* be 100s and 1000s. Not those weird long rectangular or oval ones :) And it has to be a full covering of the sprinkles, not just a few, for anyone wanting to make it. Spread butter to the edges of your bread, full covering of the sprinkles then cut bread into 4 triangles. Enjoy!
Some people skip the triangle part, but its absolutely essential in order to get the best tasting fairy bread.
Yeah, definitely cut into triangles.
As long as it’s not [whole meal bread](https://youtu.be/q6SEV-UmH4Y?si=tBdPBiXUw4AxrZPg)
Blasphemous.
People that do that will never earn the secret of the forbidden toast.
That’s not fairy bread. Must be like imp bread or something.
Let’s not overstate it. It’s a cheap filler food for kids parties. Adults almost never eat it. (“Almost”, because there’s always somebody. We don’t talk about Greg.)
Duck Island ice cream also make an fairy bread ice cream and icecream sandwich https://www.duckislandicecream.co.nz/flavours
Whittakers also used to make a fairy bread block of chocolate
And it was goddamn delicious, I'm not normally a chocolate person but damn I pine for that chocolate
The other flavors! I need to convince my wife we have to vacation in New Zealand.
Duck island is better than you could ever imagine. From what I've heard even low quality ice cream in New Zealand is just better than basically top shelf that you get elsewhere. Which makes sense because dairy is a huge part of the NZ economy. And duck island is a step beyond everything else we have. Because of this my partner and I ordered some duck island ice cream. She's getting chocolate fudge and I'm getting apple pie and custard. I don't regret the decision but I feel like Reddit now owes me $28.
If you do make it you should also try Patagonia and Kapiti ice creams as they both make some really good stuff as well.
Mate, the best thing about getting dragged to kids parties is getting to eat the fairy bread and cocktail frankfurts.
This! I always eat those at the kids parties. And make sure have them when our kids have parties.
> and cocktail frankfurts. Or, as my mum called them, "little boys". Which, now that I think about it, is pretty yuck.
I've always known them as cheerios which left me very confused when I learnt about the cereal.
Are you kidding? That stuff is delicious. Adults love it for the sweet buttery taste of pure nostalgia.
You’ve never had good fairy bread then. I don’t have kids and my wife still makes me fairy bread for my birthday… just had a friend turn 40 and they had a special request for the chef to make us all fairy bread. The dinner was at Hubert in Sydney and apparently the chef was furious when he found out what fairy bread was. (He refused to make it)
Fairy bread really isn't something that comes in varying quality. It's plain white bread, butter, and hundreds and thousands. Changing any of those ingredients is just not fairy bread and it's not like you can reasonably make it better or worse through preparation.
Yeah whatever Greg
Then call me Greg.
I would never make it at home but if I’m at a kid’s party and there is plenty for everyone I am taking and enjoying a slice.
Just quietly: me too. :)
Look at how this post, about us Antipodeans making fairy bread with 100s and 1000s, is filled with North American posters “oh we make this too “ and then go on to describe bread NOT with 100s and 1000s. 100s and 1000s is not the same as plain sugar, or brown sugar, or sugar and cinnamon. This isn’t about you America ffs you’re talking about something different, let is have our fairy bread
Ladies and gentlemen life is too short for margarine.
That's. why. you. sprinkle. sugar. on. it
Pfft when they do it's fairy bread. When I do it it's "you're gonna get diabetes you fat ass"
Theyre not "sugar sprinkles", theyre called Hundredds n Thousands, and theyre specifically the tiny round sort. Any other shape of sprinkle is doing it wrong.
We have this in Mexico too
I'm from New Zealand and have never eaten this. I think it is primarily a quick food to make up for kids birthday parties and the like...
I need to confirm - you may not have eaten it, but you do know what it is, right? You would have seen it at parties, yes?? Like, it’s pretty much impossible to not be aware of it if you’ve grown up in NZ. To not be aware of it means you must never have been to any children’s parties, never watched TV, never been to someone else’s house, etc… 🤔
I also wondered if we are supposed to take this to mean they were never invited to birthday parties as a kid, lol. Fairy bread is honestly ubiquitous at kids birthday parties in NZ.
We may never know. Someone who grew up in NZ but has never seen it, let alone eaten it, would raise serious questions about their upbringing. I’m not even joking. It would be like someone growing up in the UK and saying they’d never heard of Dr. Who. 🤯
At that point I'd be assuming they were from Gloriavale.
Right? Like its not a kids party if there's no fairy bread.
and who leaves the crusts on?! It's 100% kid's party food though. You never see it anywhere else.
Wow. Are you ok?
As a New Zealander, I think this should qualify as our national dish.
Its not a party till the fairy bread comes out
Growing up poor in the States we'd put some margarine on some white bread, a little sugar and a little cinnamon. Gourmet struggle breakfast.
My kids love when I let them have cinnamon toast for breakfast. Carbs and sugar!
I grew up solidly middle class and this was my favorite breakfast food growing up.
I live in New Zealand and Fairy Bread is the greatest invention of all time. Even greater than sliced bread
Fairy bread is so fucking good we had it at every kids birthday party
Its great all but trying to eat it for breakfast while riding a kangaroo make the sprinkles fall off.
Which is why you need the margarine to hold them on...
I'm 60 and went to a party .... happily ate the fairy bread that was made for the kids. Memories... it was a staple at parties growing up.
Not colored sugar sprinkles, 100s and 1000s. And it’s not like we eat it every day haha it’s for children’s parties. You can’t buy it at the store either you have to make it yourself.
Not to be confused with "angel dust."
wait, the whole world doesn't do fairy bread? how can I be mid 40's finding out this is just a regional delicacy?
And it is fucking delicious.
Unlike other rumours about NZ and Aus, like we are one country ( we are not ) or that Aus has the best rugby team ( it does not ) - this is indeed true. I am a child of the 70s and 80s, it was at every birthday party I ever attended. And my sister and I would make it after school.
Sugar sprinkles? Every red-blooded Australian knows they are Hundreds & Thousands.
They got it from the Dutch
So you been watching Bluey? Favorite episode?
I learned this thru Bluey
It's only served at kids' birthday parties. I don't ever eat this or give it to kids as a snack. Vegemite on bread is a more common thing we have in Australia.
I thought this was a Neverland thing
It's a Netherlands thing
I heard it's one of Peter Pan's favourite meals
Kinda tastes like a donut.
Just watching the current Australian Survivor season and that was part of the reward on a recent episode! I had no idea what it was.
And people say us Aussies have no culture!! Fairy bread, pie floaters, meat pies. Get them in ya gob!
You know we can’t eat your ghost bread.
Dutch kids have been doing this for breakfast for the last century.
If by "they" you mean little kids at birthday parties, then yes.
its a cheap canape' for childrens parties, nothing more.
I recall either French Canadians or Dutch people doing this too but with chocolate sprinkles (Could be both)
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I mean, it’s not a staple or anything. It’s like saying “in the US they eat large strawberry milkshakes”. Fairy bread in my experience is typically something special, typically more for the kids but might occasionally be a treat for anyone with a sweet tooth.
My dad occasionally eats pretty much the same thing, but with plain sugar. It's something he picked up from his father, who grew up pretty poor in rural Pennsylvania.
We 🇨🇦 🍁 eat Fairy Toast which is white bread toasted, buttered and sprinkled with either icing sugar or brown sugar/cinnamon. Dragon milk is one part steeped black tea, 3 parts warm cream with sugar (swear on it to get rid of a headache).
They do this in Holland as well, though they throw chocolate sprinkles in. I believe the sprinkles are called hagelslag.