Fairy bread

Fairy bread, here with love pearls in different colors

Feenbrot (also Feen-Brot , Märchenbrot , English fairy bread ) is white bread or toast with butter or margarine and colorful love pearls or hailstones . Usually it is cut in half into triangular pieces.

Fairy bread is served at children's birthdays or other events for children and is particularly common in Australia and New Zealand . The English term Fairy Bread could come from the poem of the same name by the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson .

literature

• Claude Lecouteux: The Fairies' Feast or the Last Traces of an Ancient Custom. In: ders .: A world on the sidelines. On the lower mythology and beliefs of the Middle Ages (= sources and research on European ethnology. Volume 22). Dettelbach 2000, ISBN 3-89754-154-8 , pp. 139-156.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ursula Dubosarsky: Fairy Bread . Penguin Books, 2001, ISBN 978-0-14-131175-3 ( penguin.com.au ( August 13, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive ) - illustrator Mitch Vane). Fairy Bread ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Australian Words: Fairy Bread. Australian National Dictionary Center.