Punsch-roll

Punsch-roll

A pink and traditionally green coloured punsch-roll.
Alternative names	Dammsugare, arraksrulle
Type	Pastry
Place of origin	Sweden
Main ingredients	green 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.

Name

This pastry is often called dammsugare ("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" ('150-ohmer'; because a brown-green-brown colour sequence on a resistor denotes a resistance value of 150Ω.)

Variations

A similar pastry in Denmark is called træstamme ("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, reuze mergpijp ("giant marrowbone"), filled with cake and a layer of cream. The reuze mergpijp is sometimes also filled with a thin layer of berry jam.

See also

• Cookie butter

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