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Affect scales typically involve recognition of emotions from a predetermined list.  However, the emotions that we experience most often may be largely due to recall based processes influenced by what emotions come to mind. Our newly introduced emotional affect scale based on recall of emotions, called the Emotional Recalled Test (ERT), captures dimensions of emotions that are not available in PANAS but that are nonetheless commonly reported as experienced emotions. Here, we show that the emotional recalled test is valid and can be reliably measured using paper and pencil. By asking people to rate their valence and arousal, ERT paper and pencil clearly captured both positive and negative emotions and do so as well or better than semantic similarity measures. This provides a highly useful scale that can be used across different languages, one of the example is our ongoing Indonesian ERT project.