Old Fashioned Jelly Roll - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 eggs
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
2/3 c. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2/3 c. cake flour
confectioners sugar
1 c. preserves

Preparation

Break the eggs into a bowl; warm to lukewarm without drying out.
Preheat oven to 400\u00b0.
Beat the eggs with the baking powder and salt until thick and very pale.
Gradually beat in the sugar; continue to beat until thick.
Beat in the vanilla.
Sift the flour twice; fold into the egg mixture.
Spread the mixture over a 10 x 15-inch jelly roll pan that has been greased, lined with wax paper and greased again.
Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, or until golden. Turn out onto a cloth towel sprinkled with 10x sugar.
Peel off paper.
Roll up from the long side, enclosing the towel.
Cool on a rack.
When cake is cool, unroll, spread with preserves and reroll without the towel.
Serve in slices.
Makes 10 servings.