Punsch-roll

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A pink and traditionally green coloured punsch-roll.
Alternative namesDammsugare, arraksrulle
Type Pastry
Place of origin Sweden
Main ingredientsgreen marzipan, chocolate, cookies, butter, cacao, punsch liqueur [1]

Punsch-roll (Swedish : punschrulle) is a Swedish small cylindrical pastry covered with green marzipan with the ends dipped in chocolate, with an interior consisting of a mix of crushed biscuits, butter, and cocoa, flavoured with punsch liqueur.

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Name

This pastry is often called dammsugare (lit.'vacuum cleaner'), [2] referring not only to its appearance, but also to the supposed practice of the pastry baker collecting crumbs from yesterday's cookies for filling. [3] Other names are arraksrulle (as arrak is an ingredient in punsch) and "150-ohmare" (lit.'150-ohmer'; because a brown-green-brown colour sequence on a resistor denotes a resistance value of 150 ohm).

Variations

A similar pastry in Denmark is called træstamme (lit.'tree trunk'). These however, are usually not colored green and no liquor is added to the cookie butter.

The Dutch variant is called a mergpijpje ("little marrowbone"), which is cream-colored instead of green, and has a completely different filling. It comes in two variants: a small variant with cream filling, and a large variant, reuzemergpijp ("giant marrowbone"), filled with cake and a layer of cream. The reuzemergpijp is sometimes also filled with a thin layer of berry jam.

See also

References

  1. "Swedish Punsch Bars". Food.com . Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  2. "Så gör du den perfekta dammsugaren". www.aftonbladet.se. Aftonbladet. 12 January 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  3. Olsson, Emelie. "5 saker du inte visste om punschrullen". www.mittkok.expressen.se. Expressen . Retrieved 27 January 2019.