Ingredients:

• ½ cup cold butter
• 1 cup self-raising flour
• Small amount of cold water
• Jam at room temperature (flavour of choice, although it is traditionally made with plum jam, use SPC Dark Plum for best result!)
• ¼ cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 large cup of boiling water
• Extra flour for flouring bench and rolling pin
• Extra butter for greasing dish

Method:

If mixing by hand:

1.      Place the flour in a medium-sized bowl.

2.      Cut the cold butter into small chunks and add to flour.

3.      Rub the butter through the flour until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs.

4.      Add cold water a bit at a time until it forms a ball of dough.  Be careful adding the water so that it doesn’t get too wet.  If it is too wet knead in a bit more flour.

If using a food processor:

1.      Place the flour in the processor bowl.

2.      Cut the cold butter into small chunks and add to flour.

3.      Put lid on processor and process until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs.

4.      With the processor running add cold water a bit at a time until it forms a ball of dough.  Stop machine as soon as it forms a ball.  Be careful adding the water so that it doesn’t get too wet.  If it is too wet add in a bit more flour.

Either method:

5.      Sprinkle flour over bench.

6.      Tip dough ball onto floured bench and knead for a few moments.

7.      Roll dough out using a lightly floured rolling pin.  It is best to roll in one direction only rather than backwards and forwards.  The finished dough should be about ½ cm thick and roughly rectangular in shape.

8.      Spread with jam taking care not to break the dough.  It is best to use the back of a spoon to spread the jam.

9.      Starting at one end of the narrow side of the rectangle begin to roll the dough into a log. Turn in the ends.

10.  Use extra butter to grease the inside of a glass or ceramic baking dish with deep sides.  The dish can be rectangular or oval as long as it is long enough to hold the roly-poly and it is deep enough to hold the sauce.

11.  Place the roly-poly into the greased dish.

12.  Place the ¼ cup sugar into a small bowl and add the tablespoon of butter.

13.  Pour the cup of boiling water over the sugar and butter and stir until the butter melts and the sugar dissolves.

14.  Pour sauce mix slowly over the roly-poly.

15.  Place in pre-heated moderate oven (180°C) for about ½ an hour or until golden brown on top.

16.  Serve warm (some muppets even use custard.)