jelly roll
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- noun
- /ˈdʒɛli roʊl/
- US
:
rollo de mermelada
- At the Pinal County Fair in May, Oldenburg entered a walnut pie and goaded Milton into baking his specialty, a jelly roll.
- jelly roll pan
- bakes a jelly roll
Examples
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After baking the sponge cake and spreading it with raspberry jam, she carefully rolled it up to create a delicious jelly roll.
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There'll be no jelly rolls for three days.
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Can Reno have a jelly roll, grandpa?
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For dessert, we enjoyed a homemade jelly roll filled with sweet cream and strawberries.
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I learned how to make a jelly roll by spreading the filling on the cake before rolling it tightly.
Synonyms
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A thin sponge cake spread with jam and rolled into a cylinder
A thin sponge cake spread with jam or cream and shaped into a tube
How Rich
Surface Forms
Morphology
Although 'roll' suggests something wound or rolled, the constituent 'jelly' (a fruit preserve) gives no cue to a bundle of pre-cut fabric strips; the quilting sense is a specialized, conventionalized term rather than a literal composition. A B1 learner who knows 'jelly' and 'roll' would most likely interpret a pastry or literal rolled item, so the quilting meaning is not derivable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Jelly roll is a thin sponge cake spread with jam and rolled into a spiral. The words jelly and roll show the jam inside and the rolled shape, so the name means this kind of rolled cake.