Sponge Roll
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A historic Australian dish of tablespoonsful flour, tablespoonsful sugar, eggs, teaspoonsful baking powder and teaspoonsful jam. Adapted from Sponge Roll, from The Art of Living in Australia (1893).
Adapted from Sponge Roll, in The Art of Living in Australia (1893), preserved in the Open Recipe Archive's The Australian Table collection and marked public domain. The method is condensed from the original and the quantities are restated in modern units; see the archive record at https://github.com/AdamBouhmad/open-recipe-archive/blob/main/collections/australian-table/recipes/sponge-roll-2.md.
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Beat the eggs and sugar together for five minutes, mix the flour and baking powder together and stir them lightly in
Pour into a well-buttered tin and bake in a quick oven for eight or ten minutes
Turn on to a damp cloth and roll up directly; warm the jam in a saucepan while the roll is cooking, and if it is very stiff mix in a spoonful of water
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; place on a sieve till cold
Adapted from Open Recipe Archive · The Art of Living in Australia (1893; archive record marked public domain). View a published recipe at Internet Archive (opens in a new tab)