| Punsch-roll | |
| Image Alt: | Dammsugare |
| Alternate Name: | Dammsugare, arraksrulle |
| Country: | Sweden |
| Type: | Pastry |
| Main Ingredient: | 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.
This pastry is often called Swedish: dammsugare,[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 Swedish: arraksrulle (as arrak is an ingredient in punsch) and "Swedish: 150-ohmare" (; because a brown-green-brown colour sequence on a resistor denotes a resistance value of 150 ohm).
A similar pastry in Denmark is called Danish: træstamme . These however, are usually not colored green and no liquor is added to the cookie butter.
The Dutch variant is called a Dutch; Flemish: 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, Dutch; Flemish: reuze mergpijp ("giant marrowbone"), filled with cake and a layer of cream. The Dutch; Flemish: reuze mergpijp is sometimes also filled with a thin layer of berry jam.