From The Modern Family Cookbook
¾ cup cake flour
¾ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons water
4 eggs, separated
¾ cup sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla
¼ cup XXXX sugar
1 cup tart red jelly
Line a shallow jelly roll pan 15½” x 10½” x 5/8″ with full width of waxed paper so it extends ½-inch all around over edge of pan –grease paper lightly. Prepare a towel by sprinkling evenly with XXXX sugar. Start oven 10 minutes before baking; set to moderately hot (400° F.)
Sift flour, measure, resift 3 times with next 2 ingredients. Put water and egg yolks into a 3-qt. mixing bowl and place over hot water, them beat with a rotary beater until very thick and light colored. Add ½ of the sugar gradually and continue to beat until thick. Remove bowl from over hot water. Beat in vanilla. Remove beater, wash. Now sift flour into 4 or 5 portions over yolk mixture, folding it in with wire whip until smooth after each portion. Beat egg whites with clean rotary beater until they form soft shiny peaks, then gradually beat in remaining sugar until shiny peaks curve at tps. Fold yolk mixture lightly but well into whites with wire whip, using about 30 cut-and-fold-over strokes. Quickly flow batter gently down center of prepared pan from one end to other, then spread ever so lightly to the edges. Bake on center rack of oven 7 to 8 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched with finger. Remove to cake rack and quickly loosen edges with thin-bladed knife. Turn out on prepared towel; immediately strip off paper. Roll up from narrow-side into an even roll, then roll up in the towel. Cool on cake rack. Unroll gently and spread evenly with jelly slightly broken up with a fork. Reroll and wrap in waxed paper, and place on a cardboard to keep straight. Store in a cool place. Slice with saw-tooth knife. 8 servings.
My Notes: Perfect for a busy weekday evening; cake bakes in only 8 minutes. ha ha ha. Has anyone ever made a jelly roll? Is there a way to make one without so much work? (besides run down to Safeway)
