Swiss roll
- From
- Guðjóna
Ingredients
- 150 g sugar5½ oz sugar
- 150 g butter, softened5½ oz butter, softened
- 3 eggs
- 150 g plain flour5½ oz plain flour
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- 3 tbsp potato starch (or cornflour)
Method
- Heat the oven to 200°C. Line a baking tray (about 30 cm × 40 cm) with baking paper.Heat the oven to 400 °F. Line a baking tray (about 12 in × 16 in) with baking paper.
- Beat the softened butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each.
- Sift the flour, potato starch and baking powder together and fold them in gently.
- Spread the batter thinly and evenly over the paper and bake for about 8–10 minutes, until light golden and springy to the touch.
- Turn the cake straight out onto a sheet of baking paper sprinkled with sugar and peel off the lining paper.
- Spread with jam (or a filling of your choice) and roll the cake up while it is still warm.
As she wrote it

Rúlluterta
(Guðjóna)
150gr. sykur — 150gr. smjör
3egg — 150gr. hveiti — 1 1/2 tsk. lyftd.
3msk. kart. mjöl.