Swiss Roll No. 2
From Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper, 1902
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This recipe was extracted from Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper (1902) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 73. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Swiss Roll, No. 1. — As we had promised two Swiss rolls, we took a different recipe for each. No. i (Mrs. Brook- Smith’s) was as follows. Ingredients — I tumbler flour. 1 tumbler white rolled sugar, tumbler milk, 2 eggs. ^ teaspoonful soda. I teaspoonful cream of tartar. Beat up the sugar and eggs together, then add the flour, 180 SWISS ROLL. LADY CAKE A^^g. mix the soda and cream of tartar in the milk and add it quickly to the flour. Bake in a buttered tin fifteen minutes. Sugar the baking-board. Then turn it out, spread it quickly with jam and roll up quickly. It keeps its shape if rolled up when hot. Swiss Roll, No. 2. — hor the other one you want 3 eggs, 3 ozs. flour, and the same of rolled sugar, i teaspoonful baking-powder
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