Pets de sœurs — “nun’s farts” in direct translation — are Québécois cinnamon-sugar spirals made from leftover pie dough. Unlike the French pet-de-nonne, which is a fried beignet, the Canadian version is a product of waste-nothing farmhouse and convent baking. When a pie is being made, the dough that would otherwise be discarded is rolled thin, spread […]

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Fairy bread is white sandwich bread spread with butter and covered in hundreds and thousands — the small, uniformly round sugar sprinkles specific to Australian and New Zealand confectionery culture, distinct from the longer rod-shaped sprinkles used in American baking. The bread is cut into triangles. That is the entire recipe, and deviation from it […]

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