Fairy Recipes
Brown Sugar Shortbread Cookies
1 cup butter, softened (no substitute)
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
Cream butter and brown sugar together. Gradually stir in the flour. Turn onto
lightly floured surface and knead until smooth. Pat into 1/3 inch thick rectangle
(about 11 x 8). Cut into 2 x 1 inch strips. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Prick each
with fork., Bake at 300 degrees for 25 minutes or until bottom begins to brown.
Remove. Cool 5 minutes. Transfer to wire rack and cool completely. Best made several hours or a day ahead.
Fairy Gingerbread Cookies
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup milk
1 cup light brown sugar
1 7/8 cups bread flour
2 teaspoons ginger
Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, and milk very slowly. Mix and sift flour and ginger, and combine mixtures. Spread very thinly with a broad, long-bladed knife on a buttered, inverted dripping-pan. Bake in a moderate oven. Cut in squares before removing from pan. Watch carefully and turn pan frequently during baking, that all may be evenly cooked. If mixture around edge of pan is cooked before that in the centre, pan should be removed from oven, cooked part cut off, and remainder returned to oven to finish cooking.
Fairy Gingerbread
The fairies made some gingerbread
Of sugar, flour, and spice.
“They said, “We’ll give some to our queen,
It looks so very nice!”
So they put some on a napkin,
Laid on a pretty plate,
And took it to the rose bower
Where she was sleeping late.
When the little queen awakened,
It lay before her eyes
And then she cried with great delight,
“Oh what a big surprise!”
“For gingerbread so nice and brown,
So yummy and so airy
My royal thanks and compliments
to every cooking fairy!”
I was hiding by the rose bower
And was quiet as could be
When she asked the happy fairies
For their secret recipe.
I had a little notebook there
And wrote down what they said,
So that is how I learned to make
This Fairy Gingerbread!
From: Tummy Tingles By Josephine Brandenburg Beardsley and illustrated by Majorie Peters.
1937
The fairy realm 