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Easy Sponge Roll
This easy sponge roll is great for breakfast, brunch or afternoon tea. You could also serve it with crushed berries and/or with sweet whipped cream.
Ingredients:
6 tablespoons all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
6 tablespoons sugar
6 large eggs
2 tablespoons of hot water
6 tablespoons jam
Directions:
1. Line a large baking tin with parchment paper or grease and flour baking tin; set aside.
2. Preheat oven to 350º F (180º C).
3. Beat the eggs and sugar together for couple minutes, until sugar is dissolved.
4. Sift the flour and baking powder together and stir them lightly into the egg mixture.
3. Pour into prepared large baking tin and bake in preheated oven for eight or ten minutes.
4. Warm the jam in a saucepan while the roll is cooking, and if it is very stiff mix in a spoon or two of water.
5. Turn on to a damp cloth and roll up directly;
6. Take the roll out of the cloth and lay flat on a piece of sugared paper. Spread the jam on quickly and roll up again;
7. Place on a wire rack till cold.
8. Dust with confectioner's sugar and serve.
RomWell Holiday Season
Make your celebrations, simple, delicious and memorable...Did You Know?
Dessert is a course that typically comes at the end of a meal, usually consisting of sweet food but sometimes of a strongly flavored one, such as some cheeses. The word comes from the French language as dessert and this from Old French desservir, "to clear the table" and "to serve." Common desserts include cakes, cookies, fruits, pastries, ice cream, and candies.
An entremet (or entremets, from Old French, literally meaning "between servings") is in modern French cuisine a small dish served between courses or simply a dessert. Originally it was an elaborate form of entertainment dish common among the nobility and upper middle class in Western Europe during the later part of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. An entremet marked the end of a serving of courses and could be anything from a simple frumenty (a type of wheat porridge) that was brightly colored and flavored with exotic and expensive spices to elaborate models of castles complete with wine fountains, musicians, and food modeled into allegorical scenes.