The present Doodle celebrates Fairy bread, a nostalgic childhood treat famous in Australia and New Zealand, on the birthday of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, whom linguistic scholars accept first coined the term in quite a while 1885 sonnet “Fairy Bread” in “A Child’s Garden of Verses.”
Traditional Fairy bread binds together three simple ingredients—triangularly cut white bread slathered in spread and finished off with rainbow sprinkles (referred to conversationally as “hundreds and thousands”). Be that as it may, its history isn’t so simple as its formula.
Albeit some accept the delicious treat may have been inspired by hagelslag—Dutch toast shrouded in chocolate sprinkles—both Australia and New Zealand guarantee to have initially invented Fairy bread completely all alone.
New Zealanders have lit up desserts with rainbow sprinkles for longer than a century, however a 1929 article published in a Tasmanian newspaper claims to be quick to reference Fairy bread with the ingredients it’s known for now.
While the nation of beginning (and who can make it the best) stays a friendly disputed matter between the neighboring nations, Aussies and Kiwis the same can concur that this treat is a staple of children’s birthday celebrations that fulfills the sweet tooth as well as the experienced nostalgic sense of taste.
If you decide to prepare some Fairy bread of your own, remember that to many, eliminating the covering implies you’ve taken out the dish’s credibility.
Here’s to Fairy bread—a scrumptious treat that is pretty much as simple as one, two, three!