Recipe - Honey Roll

3 Eggs
2 ounce (one quarter cup) castor
(superfine) sugar (heck;
use regular, works just as
well)
2 tablespoon (two and a half; American)
honey
One half teaspoon (five eighths teaspoon;
American) bicarbonate of
soda
1 Dessert spoon (one
tablespoon; American) hot
water
4 ounce (one cup) plain flour
1 teaspoon (one and a quarter teaspoon;
American) cinnamon
Whipped cream
Extra sugar

This is from Marion Howells's _Cooking for every occasion_, published in
1971. It was originally an English cook book, because the amounts are based
on Imperial weights and measures, with conversion charts provided inside
the front cover for Americans. That's why there are two measurements for
some ingredients here ... The cake looks like more work than it actually
ends up being, and I find it is extremely good.

Grease a ten by fourteen inch swiss (jelly) roll baking tin and line it
with paper; if your oven takes long to warm up, turn it on moderately
hot, Mark 5,
375 degrees fahrenheit.

Beat the eggs three minutes, or until light in colour; gradually add the
sugar and beat until it is dissolved. Keep beating while you add the honey
and until the mixture has the consistency of thick cream. Then dissolve the
bicarb of soda in the hot water and add it to the eggs. Fold in the sifted
flour and the cinnamon. Pour the batter into the paperlined tin and bake
for twelve to fifteen minutes.

Meanwhile, get ready a damp tea towel (or dish cloth). Lay it flat on your
working surface and cover it with a greaseproof piece of paper (waxed
paper does nicely), then sprinkle sugar on the paper.

When the top of the cake is springy to the touch, remove the cake tin and
turn the cake onto the sugarsprinkled greaseproof paper. Peel off the
lining paper and throw it away; trim off the long edges of the cake, which
are dry and rather crisp trim the short edges, too, if they don't look
nice. (You can eat the edges as a special treat for yourself.) Then gently
roll the cake up, tea towel and all, with the greaseproof paper on the
inside. Cover with another tea towel (CLEAN!) and let it sit for about a
minute. Unroll, remove the paper and the towel, and roll the cake up again,
then let it stand until it is cold.

Meanwhile, whip up a suitable amount of cream (you can use something like
frozen fake whipped cream, but be SURE the cake is cold first, since that
stuff melts).

When the cake is cold, unroll it carefully, spread the inside of it with
the whipped cream, then roll it up again. You can dust the top with extra
sugar if you wish.

Posted to FOODWINE Digest by The Stray Grey Mouse markin@PATRIOT.NET on
Dec 27, 1997