Happy Passover! Today starts the second full day of the holiday. On Monday night, we had a family seder and I wanted to share a recipe and some pictures.
Passover Jelly Roll
First up is a jelly roll. As I’ve mentioned before, on Passover we don’t eat bread that has risen or anything similar, so baking things is tough! This jelly roll is a family tradition, and I hadn’t helped make it before this year. It’s kind of like a pound cake with strawberry jelly.
Ingredients:
- 4 eggs, separated
- 1/2 C sugar
- grated rind of 1 orange
- 1/2 C cake meal (kosher for Passover), sifted three times
- 1/4 tsp salt
Instructions:
- Beat yolks and sugar together until light.
- Add grated rind and cake meal.
- Add salt to egg whites and beat until stiff but not dry.
- Fold whites into batter, spread dough in waxed paper lined 9 x 12 pan and bake at 350* for 10-12 minutes.
- Lift out cake with paper and place on a damp cloth for a few minutes. Invert on waxed paper sprinkled with sugar.
- Remove paper from bottom of cake, spread with jelly and roll up.
- Wrap in waxed paper, then in damp cloth for 15-29 minutes so the roll holds its shape. Remove paper and dust with sugar and slice.
- Heat jelly, sprinkle with powdered sugar.
I took step by step pictures, but didn’t think they were too exciting. If you plan to make this, I’ll send you the pictures!
We did have some helpers to spread the jelly.
And rolling it up is a skill. That’s my mom, not me!
Here is the finished product, garnished with powdered sugar and berries.
This was my chocolate matzo toffee.
Our seder table. My aunt worked for days to set this and make it pretty!
The seder plate.
Some pretty purple flowers.
My cousin Brett showing the seder plate he made at school.
Our happy hosting family.
My grandfather leads the seder each year. He is a whiz at seders and declared that “we know about the suffering so we can skip that part.”
Taylor opened the door for Elijah and helped read the Four Questions.
That’s me and my father-in-law.
My dad reading his part from the book.
My parents came in for Passover too. We missed you, Shelley!
Another of the seder plate.
That’s it for this year! It’s always great to share holidays with our family, and better when out of towners come to visit us!
I don’t at least get a shout-out that you missed me??
oh, oops. i’ll edit. but you haven’t been around for passover in many years.
maybe just 2 years? unless you weren’t around for passover 3 years ago?
i will check the photos. i added you in.
Was Jeffrey the photographer, since there weren’t any pictures of him? All great pics, and the jelly roll was awesome as was the matzo toffee. Keeping Passover customs is indeed personal. Tolerating matzo for a week is a challenge, but then that’s the point of being observant to a degree because you are supposed to be doing something different.
How beautiful Marci! I really have enjoyed your posts on Passover. Plus, I have learned so much about a Passover Seder. Your jelly roll looks delicious. Thanks so much for sharing. Your Aunt’s table was so elegant!
Thanks for your comment, glad you’ve enjoyed the posts.
I too have enjoyed your Passover posts. Your Aunt did an amazing job on the table, it’s gorgeous. I passed on your toffee recipe to several friends and they seemed excited, they’re always on the hunt for Passover dessert recipes.
awesome! i hope they like the toffee recipe. glad you’ve liked the passover posts. a couple more to go!