Rolled Jelly Cake

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup pastry flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder

Method

1. 1

   Beat egg yolks and sugar till light.

2. 2

   Add mixed dry ingredients; then stiffly beaten whites.

3. 3

   Mix lightly together.

4. 4

   Bake in thin sheet in quick oven.

5. 5

   As soon as done turn quickly on a towel wrung out of water, spread with jelly, roll up, and dust with powdered sugar.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Royal baker and pastry cook (1913) by Royal Baking Powder Company, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, whites 4 eggs. Mix flour, salt, and baking powder. Cream butter and sugar. Add alternately the water and flour, then whites of eggs, and whip hard for 5 minutes. Line loaf-pan with buttered paper, then with rose- geranium leaves. Bake in a moderate oven. The leaves can be pulled off with the paper. Ginger Cake. — H cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, 1 y teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 y pints flour, 1 cup milk, 1 tablespoon ex¬ tract ginger. Rub the butter and sugar to a light cream; add the eggs, 2 at a time, beat¬ ing 5 minutes between; add the flour, sifted with the powder, the milk and extract ; mix into a smooth batter ; bake in a cake-tin, in rather hot oven, 40 minutes. Gingerbread. — 1 cup brown sugar and 3 tablespoons butter, stirred to a cream ; add 1 cup New Orleans molasses, 2 eggs; mix well; stir dry 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder in 2y cups flour, put in ginger or spice to taste, bake in 1 loaf 1 hour. Hazelnut Cake. — 9 ounces flour, 4 ounces butter, 4 ounces sugar, 4 ounces chopped hazelnuts, 4 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, y tea¬ spoon salt, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder. Mix flour, salt, and baking powder. Cream butter and sugar, add vanilla, chopped nuts, and beaten yolks. Add flour, then whipped whites, and beat well. Bake in shallow pan in medium oven, and when cold ice with boiled icing. Jelly Cake. — Beat 3 eggs well, whites and yolks separately; take a cup of fine white sugar and beat in well with yolks, and 1 cup sifted flour, stirred in gently; then stir in the whites a little at a time, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, and 1 tablespoon milk ; pour into 3 jelly-cake plates and bake from 5 to 10 minutes in a well-heated oven; when cold spread with currant jelly, place each layer on top of the other, and sift powdered sugar on top. Ginger Sponge Cake. — 2 cups brown sugar, 4 eggs, 1 pint flour, y cup water, 1 y tea¬ spoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 tablespoon extract ginger, 1 teaspoon extract lemon. Beat the eggs and sugar together for 10 min¬ utes; add the water, the flour sifted with the powder, and the extracts ; mix into a smooth sponge, and bake in quick oven 30 minutes. Honey Cake. — y cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup honey, 1 pint flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon caraway seeds. Mix the honey with the sugar; add the butter melted, the eggs slightly beaten, the flour, sifted with the powder, and the seeds; mix into a smooth batter of the con¬ sistency of sponge cake, and bake in a fairly hot oven 35 minutes. Rolled Jelly Cake. — 4 eggs, % cup powdered sugar, yz cup pastry flour,

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