Recipe: Jelly Roll

Jelly Roll
Source: The Joy of Cooking, 1991

3/4 cup sugar
4 egg yolks
1 tsp. vanilla
3/4 cup cake flour
3/4 tsp. baking powder
4 egg whites
1/2 cup finely chopped nuts
1/2 cup jelly

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Sift sugar. Beat egg yolks until light, add the sugar gradually. Beat until creamy. Add vanilla. Sift cake flour before measuring; re-sift with baking powder. add flour gradually to egg mixture, beat until smooth. Whip egg whites until stiff, fold them into cake batter with nuts. Bake about 13 minutes; turn out onto towel dusted with powdered sugar; roll up and cool.

When cold, spread with at least 1/2 cup jelly and re-roll.