{"id":35,"date":"2006-08-31T22:41:32","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T02:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2006-08-31T23:15:10","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T03:15:10","slug":"life-is-too-short-to-refrain-from-eating-jam-out-of-the-jar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Life is too short to refrain from eating jam out of the jar."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a wee little girl, my dad used to bring home jellyrolls and share them with me. Cellophane wrapped sponge cake with raspberry jelly peeking out. I believe that they were from Kern&#8217;s bakery. I don&#8217;t know if Kern&#8217;s has closed up or isn&#8217;t as readily available around here or if they just stopped making jelly rolls, but I haven&#8217;t had one in years.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, when Mimi and I were checking out Jungle Jim&#8217;s, I saw a lovely jelly roll in the bakery there, all oozing with jelly. If I&#8217;d been in my right mind, I probably would have bought it. Instead I&#8217;d just been traumatized by a big dead eyeball staring up at me from the meatcase and my brain was all agoggle. In retrospect, I guess that&#8217;s much better than a live eyeball staring up at me from the meatcase, but that isn&#8217;t the point. The point is the cake.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday night, I dreamed of cake. Not just any cake, multiple layers of golden yellow cake with raspberry jam between them. Rather like the jellyrolls of my youth, but not rolled. I saw a tower of thin layers and red jam.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I finally had enough energy after work to dive into this project. I used the 1-2-3-4 Yellow Cake recipe from The Joy of Cooking, making 3 layers. I sliced each of these layers in half, spreading raspberry preserves between each layer. Then I mixed a little Chambord with the remaining preserves and drizzled them over the top.<\/p>\n<p>What we have here are six layers of love.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/images\/foodblogging\/jellylove.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a wee little girl, my dad used to bring home jellyrolls and share them with me. Cellophane wrapped sponge cake with raspberry jelly peeking out. I believe that they were from Kern&#8217;s bakery. I don&#8217;t know if Kern&#8217;s has closed up or isn&#8217;t as readily available around here or if they just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimental-kitchenry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}