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 (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 are arraksrulle (as arrak is an ingredient in punsch) and "150-ohmare" (lit.'150-ohmer'; because a brown-green-brown colour sequence on a resistor denotes a resistance value of 150 ohm).
Variations
A similar pastry in Denmark is called træstamme (lit.'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.
