I made my first-ever jelly roll yesterday. It went so smoothly that I was surprised. I turned out the baked cake onto a towel dusted with confectioners sugar. I rolled up the cake in the towel and let it cool a bit. I unrolled it with no problem. I spread the filling on the cake and rolled the cake back up again with no problem. The cake didn't break, split or crack.
But after I finished rolling up the cake with the filling inside, I realized that I had rolled the cake from the long end instead of the short end. Instead of a lovely jelly roll, I had what turned out to be a thin cake rolled about once or one-and-a-half times around a big glop of filling.
It tasted okay, but it tasted more like a jelly-filled doughnut than a jelly roll.
I guess I'll just have to try again, and this time remember to roll it from the short end.
Hurry up and eat the evidence so no one will know.
I made my first-ever jelly roll yesterday. It went so smoothly that I was surprised. I turned out the baked cake onto a towel dusted with confectioners sugar. I rolled up the cake in the towel and let it cool a bit. I unrolled it with no problem. I spread the filling on the cake and rolled the cake back up again with no problem. The cake didn't break, split or crack.
But after I finished rolling up the cake with the filling inside, I realized that I had rolled the cake from the long end instead of the short end. Instead of a lovely jelly roll, I had what turned out to be a thin cake rolled about once or one-and-a-half times around a big glop of filling.
It tasted okay, but it tasted more like a jelly-filled doughnut than a jelly roll.
I guess I'll just have to try again, and this time remember to roll it from the short end.
Hurry up and eat the evidence so no one will know.
Oh, wait. You just told everybody...
Pastorio
I thought "jelly roll" was a sexual euphemism. You mean there actually is a *cake* called a jelly roll?
Yes, and the cake preceded the euphemism. The cake is called a "Swiss roll" outside of American English, but "I ain't gonna give nobody none of my Swiss roll" wouldn't have been a hit.
Yes, and the cake preceded the euphemism. The cake is called a "Swiss roll" outside of American English, but "I ain't gonna give nobody none of my Swiss roll" wouldn't have been a hit.
And Swiss Roll Morton would never have played the blues...
I thought "jelly roll" was a sexual euphemism. You mean there actually is a *cake* called a jelly roll?
Waiting for the clever replies, ;-) Bob
It must be jelly 'cuz jam don't shake like that?
I only know it as a cake roll with a filling -- in 1989 and 1990 and 1991 I won ribbons at the Fair for mine. :-) Two seconds and a fourth. Sponge cake with a jelly filling. Not bad if you like that kind of thing.
Sexual euphemism? For what -- or shouldn't I ask? -- -Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Updated 11-29-04; Sam I Am! birthday telling; Thanksgiving 2004; Fanfare, Maestro, please. "Are we going to measure or are we going to cook?" -Food writer Mimi Sheraton
Yes, and the cake preceded the euphemism. The cake is called a "Swiss roll" outside of American English, but "I ain't gonna give nobody none of my Swiss roll" wouldn't have been a hit.
And Swiss Roll Morton would never have played the blues...
ROFL!!! Thank you, Sir. -- -Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Updated 11-29-04; Sam I Am! birthday telling; Thanksgiving 2004; Fanfare, Maestro, please. "Are we going to measure or are we going to cook?" -Food writer Mimi Sheraton
I thought "jelly roll" was a sexual euphemism. You mean there actually is a *cake* called a jelly roll?
Waiting for the clever replies, ;-) Bob
It must be jelly 'cuz jam don't shake like that?
I only know it as a cake roll with a filling -- in 1989 and 1990 and 1991 I won ribbons at the Fair for mine. :-) Two seconds and a fourth. Sponge cake with a jelly filling. Not bad if you like that kind of thing.
Sexual euphemism? For what -- or shouldn't I ask?
As I heard Josh White explain it to a wide-eyed Wellesley student about 40 years ago, "You settin' on it."
I thought "jelly roll" was a sexual euphemism. You mean there actually is a *cake* called a jelly roll?
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Sexual euphemism? For what -- or shouldn't I ask?
As I heard Josh White explain it to a wide-eyed Wellesley student about 40 years ago, "You settin' on it." Pastorio
Allrightythen. I think I'm getting the picture. -- -Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> More on 1-4-05 - Swiss Steak. "Are we going to measure or are we going to cook?" -Food writer Mimi Sheraton
The term abounds in early to mid20th century jazz and blues music.
Many ladies sang of baking the finest in town, while a few sang of reserving it for a particular beau or, more rarely, maintaining it intact.
I guess I shouldn't have asked. Nobody believes me when I tell them I'm an innocent. -- -Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> More on 1-4-05 - Swiss Steak. "Are we going to measure or are we going to cook?" -Food writer Mimi Sheraton
The term abounds in early to mid20th century jazz and blues music.
Many ladies sang of baking the finest in town, while a few sang of reserving it for a particular beau or, more rarely, maintaining it intact.
I guess I shouldn't have asked. Nobody believes me when I tell them I'm an innocent.
Reminds me of my father's memories of dates down at the waterfront where he claimed they were "watching the submarine races", LOL. I was soooooooooo gullible...I kept wondering how they saw them at night?? 🙂) Goomba
