Jelly Roll

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoonful baking powder
• 1 cupful sugar
• ¥% teaspoonful salt
• 2 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco
• 4 tablespoonfuls milk
• 2 cupfuls flour
• 1 teaspoonful lemon extract
• Jelly or preserves

Method

1. 1

   Beat eggs and sugar together for twenty minutes.

2. 2

   Sift in flour, salt, and baking powder, then add milk, extract, and melted Crisco.

3. 3

   Bake in a greased tin for twelve minutes.

4. 4

   Spread with jelly and roll up quickly.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 69. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Jelly Roll 4 eggs 1 teaspoonful baking powder 1 cupful sugar Y% teaspoonful salt 2 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco 4 tablespoonfuls milk 2 cupfuls flour Jelly or preserves 1 teaspoonful lemon extract Beat eggs and sugar together twenty minutes, remove beater, sift in flour, salt, and baking powder, add milk, extract, and melted Crisco. Grease large flat tin with Crisco, dust over with flour, pour in mixture and spread out evenly. Bake twelve minutes in moderately hot oven. Turn out on sugared paper, spread quickly with jelly or preserve and roll up at once. ‘Fhe cake will crack if spreading and rolling are not quickly done. Sliced jelly roll is delicious with custard. Sufficient for one jelly roll. Marble Cake 2 cupfuls sugar 2 tablespoonfuls melted 1 cupful Crisco chocolate 3% cupfuls flour 1 teaspoonful powdered 4 eggs cinnamon 1 cupful milk ¥% teaspoonful grated nutmeg 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder 1% teaspoonful powdered allspice 2 tablespoonfuls molasses 1 teaspoonful salt Cream Crisco, add gradually the sugar, yolks of eggs beaten until thick, flour, salt, baking powder, milk, and egg whites beaten to stiff froth. Mix carefully and to one-third the mixture add spices, molasses, and melted chocolate. Drop in Criscoed cake pan alternately a spoonful of each mix- ture, and draw spoon through once or twice to make colors lie in lines. Bake in moderately hot oven one hour. Sufficient for one medium-sized cake Marmalade Cake % cupful sugar ¥% teaspoonful salt

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