Ready to eat Schaumrolle - part 2 (cropped)

''Schaumrollen'', or ''Schillerlocken'', are an

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n confection. They consist of a cone or tube of pastry, often filled with

whipped cream Whipped cream is liquid heavy cream that is whipped by a whisk or mixer until it is light and fluffy and holds its shape, or by the expansion of dissolved gas, forming a firm colloid. It is often sweetened, typically with white sugar, and ...

meringue Meringue (, ; ) is a type of dessert or candy, often associated with Swiss, French, Polish and Italian cuisines, traditionally made from whipped egg whites and sugar, and occasionally an acidic ingredient such as lemon, vinegar, or cream of ...

. Also called foam rollers, they are a bag or roll-shaped

puff pastry Puff pastry, also known as ', is a flaky light pastry made from a laminated dough composed of dough (') and butter or other solid fat ('). The butter is put inside the dough (or vice versa), making a ' that is repeatedly folded and rolled out befo ...

, which is sweetened with whipped cream or meringue, or sometimes filled with an unsweetened cream puree. They are about wide. The pastries are made by wrapping thin

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strips spirally around a cone shaped sheet metal tube, which is then coated and baked. The sweet version is often rolled in coarse sugar or

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before baking.

History

This is a variety of a

cream horn A cream horn is a pastry made with flaky or puff pastry, and whipped cream. (An alternative version, the meringue horn, is made with meringue.) The horn shape is made by winding overlapping pastry strips around a conical mould. After baking, a ...

, which was brought to North America by

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s from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Also popular with immigrants from the

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region, ''Schaumrollen'' or ''Schillerlocken'' can be made up to five inches long, and are served as a treat on major holidays such as Christmas, as well as at weddings and first Communion celebrations.

Nutritional information

Like many pastries, this dessert is high in calories; an Austrian ''Schaumrolle'' is estimated to have almost 200 calories per single piece, of which 46 percent are fats, and 49 percent carbohydrates.

Name of the dessert

Friedrich Schiller by Ludovike Simanowiz

''Schillerlocken'', the alternate name for the pastry, goes back to

Anton Graff Anton Graff (18 November 1736 – 22 June 1813) was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottf ...

's ''Portrait of Friedrich Schiller''. The portrait shows poet

Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friends ...

with his blond curls in relatively casual pose sitting at a table. This portrait, which is now located in

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in the Kügelgenhaus, was often copied and found widespread use as a copper engraving, which led to the emergence of the naming of the pastry in popular culture.Robert Eberhardt (Hrsg.), Friedrich Dieckmann: ''Anton Graff – Porträts eines Porträtisten.'' Wolff Verlag, Berlin 2013, S. 121 In Germany, ''Schillerlocken'' also refers to smoked dogfish belly flaps.

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History

Nutritional information

Name of the dessert

See also

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