 A pink and traditionally green coloured punsch-roll. | |
| Alternative names | Dammsugare, arraksrulle |
|---|---|
| Type | Pastry |
| Place of origin | Sweden |
| Main ingredients | greenmarzipan,chocolate,cookies,butter,cacao,punsch liqueur[1] |
Punsch-roll (Swedish:punschrulle) is a Swedish small cylindricalpastry covered with greenmarzipan with the ends dipped inchocolate, with an interior consisting of a mix of crushedbiscuits,butter, andcocoa, flavoured withpunsch liqueur.
This pastry is often calleddammsugare (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 arearraksrulle (asarrak is an ingredient in punsch) and "150-ohmare" (lit. '150-ohmer'; because a brown-green-brown colour sequence on aresistor denotes aresistance value of 150ohm).
A similar pastry in Denmark is calledtræstamme (lit. 'tree trunk'). These however, are usually not colored green and no liquor is added to the cookie butter.
The Dutch variant is called amergpijpje ("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. Thereuzemergpijp is sometimes also filled with a thin layer of berry jam.
