The menu was, cheerios (not the cereal! cocktail sized saveloys) chippies (potato crisps?) and dip, the dip made from a packet of dried onion soup and reduced cream. Sausage rolls and other small finger sized savory pies, rainbow jellies made in tall glasses and plenty of ice cream, lamingtons with freshly whipped cream and a chocolate cake decorated with M&Ms and of course the fairy bread. I'm not sure if people in lands far over the seas have experienced the culinary delight of fairy bread, mostly they seem slightly confused and a bit amused at the idea of putting cake sprinkles all over bread. I wonder if it is a very kiwi childhood treat, or where exactly the idea of it has come from.
recipe: you need lovely soft fresh squishy sliced bread, and soft spreadable room temperature butter (or margerine), spread a thin but even coating over teh slice. Trim the crusts away, fairies never eat crusts, they go out to the birds on the back lawn instead, or you can use cookie cutters to cut the bread into fun shapes. Now you need to get the pieces coated with an even layer of hundreds and thousands.. not sure what they are called in alternate universes, but here in kiwiland they are "hundreds and thousands" I pour mine into a shallow bowl and then just drop the bread shapes in butter side down and give the bowl a gentle swish. The rainbow balls stick to the butter just fine without too much hassle and then I just fish them out and place them on a plate.
And now, in my best TV chef voice, here's some I made earlier!
They're a favorite of the menfolk in my life. My now fifty year old hubby is highly upset if a birthday goes by without fairy bread gracing the table. In fact I actually buy large catering type bags of them at Moore Wilsons, they work out at about $8 for a huge 1.5kg bag vs the $2 or so for a small plastic pottle from the supermarket cake decorating section.
I did take pictures of my mitts finished and a pair at last, but I wasn't happy with the focus and the composition of the pics and the lighting wasn't the best. So I will amuse you with pictures of my knitting bits and pieces instead.
The small tin was one of the extras in a sock club I belonged to when finances were a little flusher, it came filled with jelly belly beans! mhmmm. The middle sized one was from guterman it comes with four reels of thread inside it and is just a perfect size for mostly anything of use. And the green one is a pencil tin from smiggle, the metal on it is little too thin and dents far too easily, a shame really because it is a good size and shape for knitterly things.
And the view inside.
In the smiggle tin I have my sock sized circulars and crochet hook and a needle sizer that is positively ancient, one of these days I will get one of those lovely little anodized aluminum pendant needle sizers.
In the thread tin I keep a tiny torch, this is just in case I need to read a pettern line in a powercut, I can knit in the dark but not read!. I have a small victorinox swiss army knife, the scissors are great for snipping ends, and the nail file is really useful for smoothing down any nails that get a bit catchy on yarn when you're knitting. I have some cable end buttons that I never use. And cable needles, created from broken circs. I whittled the broken ends down to a point (with the swiss army knife!) and then sanded smooth. I have a magnet in there to hold the tapestry needles and I used to have a small tape measure until fiddle fingers McCoy (not certain which one) fiddled one to many times and broke it.
The smallest tin holds my stitch markers, I keep a small polishes magnetic rock on there, it's really strong! and as a bonus the magnets help hold the tins together in my knitting bag so they are easy to find.
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