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OLD FASHIONED SOUTHERN BUTTER ROLL

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Old Fashion Southern Butter Roll is rich, moist and decadent. Like many other Southern classics, this favorite dessert economical to make.

Old Fashion Southern Favorite Butter Roll dessert
A light biscuit-type dough is layered with butter and sugar then covered in a milk mixture and baked until golden.
The milk mixture makes a wonderful, sweet and buttery sauce.
Old Fashion Southern Favorite Butter Roll dessert

Old Fashion Southern Butter Roll

This is the type of dessert that you tell yourself ‘just one bite’ then you’ll stand over it and eat spoonful after spoonful straight from the pan.

Old Fashioned Butter Roll has been a Southern favorite for years! In fact, I had an old newspaper clipping from long ago that I have passed over time and again and never made it. Saturday I wanted something sweet, but easy. There the clipping was again, begging to be made. The directions were simple enough so I gave it a try.

Wow, I wish I had not passed it over so many times before. I love it!! It was economical, quick, easy, and delicious!!

Cut shortening into flour
Add milk and stir
Roll out into a rectangle, spread on sugar and cinnamon
Slice into rolls and add to baking dish
Pour milk mixture over rolls.
I know, weird, right?
I saw Big Daddy eyeing it like it was the weirdest thing he’d ever seen.
He didn’t think it was so weird after he tasted it! 😉
Old Fashion Southern Butter Roll

 

Old Fashion Southern Butter Roll

Old Fashion Southern Butter Roll

Old Fashioned Southern Butter Roll is rich, moist and decadent. Like many other Southern classics, this favorite dessert economical to make.
Author: Paula
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Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 55 minutes
Servings: 9 servings

Ingredients

Butter Roll

  • 2 cups self-rising flour
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup butter softened
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Milk Sauce

  • 2 cups milk
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°. Cut shortening into flour with a fork. Sir in milk. On a floured surface, dump out dough and press together with hands to form a ball. Roll into a rectangle (about 8x10). Spread softened butter over dough, sprinkle 1/4 c sugar and cinnamon over top. Roll up and press together lightly. Slice and place in an 8x8-inch baking dish.
  • In a saucepan, combine all sauce ingredients and heat over medium heat, stirring constantly, until bubbles just begin to form. Pour milk sauce over rolls. Bake 30 to 40 minutes or until lightly brown. Allow to sit and cool slightly. Great with vanilla ice cream.

Nutrition

Calories: 413kcal | Carbohydrates: 44g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 34mg | Sodium: 120mg | Potassium: 117mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 24g | Vitamin A: 425IU | Calcium: 86mg | Iron: 1mg
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Comments

  1. Yamini says

    11.29.21 at 5:12 am

    5 stars
    Love this “OLD FASHIONED SOUTHERN BUTTER ROLL ” recipe, it seems so delicious. will surely gonna try this one. Thanks for sharing with us.

    Reply
  2. Mamie says

    08.26.20 at 5:19 pm

    Can you add strawberry 🍓 inside the butter roll

    Reply
    • Paula says

      09.02.20 at 2:03 pm

      Yes

      Reply
    • ammie says

      12.07.20 at 5:52 pm

      5 stars
      If you add strawberries it is not a butter roll. This desert do not require changes. You are not making butter roll you are making a strawberry roll.

      Reply
  3. Michelle Grandell says

    07.19.19 at 3:04 pm

    Paula,
    I have looked all over and can’t find the ingredients nor the instructions

    Reply
  4. Mary M says

    04.07.19 at 11:52 pm

    My mother made the tastiest butter roll. For many years I’ve tried to come up with a butter roll that compares to hers, but no luck. I am elated! that I’ve come across your recipe. The one thing that my mother did with her roll was to just leave it rolled, and then cook. She would cut servings from the roll.

    Reply
    • Paula says

      04.08.19 at 11:40 am

      Oh, I like the idea of leaving it in a roll. I’ll try that.

      Reply
  5. Kay says

    09.19.18 at 3:12 pm

    My grandmother used canned sweet milk instead of this sauce.

    Reply
  6. Elaine Matthews says

    11.02.16 at 9:48 am

    Am I missing something?? I can’t seem to find the sauce recipe?? Looks so good i wanted to try it! 🙂

    Reply
    • Paula says

      11.03.16 at 8:44 am

      The milk sauce ingredients are listed in the gray recipe box above under ‘Milk Sauce’ – the last 3 ingredients and the instructions are in #2 in the ‘Instructions’.

      Reply
      • Jennifer says

        08.18.18 at 12:40 pm

        Sorry I still don’t find the recipe for the Milk Sauce, can someone help???

        Reply
        • Paula says

          08.18.18 at 3:46 pm

          It’s the last 3 ingredients and the second set of instructions

          Reply
  7. Ron Nelson says

    10.15.15 at 11:01 pm

    5 stars
    This looks like something I have been searching for since I was 15, spent a year with my aunt in Sikeston, Mo. It was my favorite and I have never seen a recipe for an old fashioned butter roll! You may have just made me the happiest guy in the world! I have to try it, but it sure sounds the same. Ironically, I found by accident while scrolling and checking out the pecan cobbler and monkeybread. I am going to like your blog and I will let you know. Thank you so much. God bless!

    Reply
  8. Glenda B. says

    04.29.15 at 3:46 pm

    I was so happy to find this recipe. My dad has spoken of these often. We are celebrating his 85th Birthday next week, and I’m going to surprise him with a Butter Roll! Thanks again.

    Reply
    • Paula says

      05.01.15 at 5:56 pm

      I am so glad you can make it for him! I love preserving these old recipes. Please let me know if he likes it!

      Reply
      • Rosetta Parker says

        10.10.15 at 6:52 pm

        Hi Paula,
        I can’t believe that I’m looking at a recipe for a Butter Roll. I’m 69 years old, and I was raised on this. My mom used nutmeg and lemon flavor, and that’s the way I make it today. This is my oldest sons absolute favorite dessert.
        I tweeked mine a little. I make my dough and cut into individual pieces, bake them separately. I make my milk sauce and pour over each when ready to eat. Left overs don’t get all soggy.
        I’m an Oklahoma girl!

        Reply
        • Paula says

          10.10.15 at 7:09 pm

          I love the idea of baking them individually, Rosetta! I’ll have to try that. I got this recipe out of our local newspaper years and years ago. It’s now one of my favorites. I love bringing back Southern classics! Please share any others with me that you may have, I’d love to try them.

          Reply
  9. Jo Ann Leifeste says

    04.18.15 at 1:12 pm

    5 stars
    My husbands family always made a butter roll. They left it in a roll & then added water & baked it. It had a self made sauce when it was done. It didn’t last very long either.

    Reply
  10. Tewaner says

    01.23.15 at 6:41 pm

    I love these. I’m from Memphis and butter rolls will definitely draw a crowd. But what is milk sauce?

    Reply
    • Paula says

      01.23.15 at 8:54 pm

      The ingredients: 2 c milk,2/3 c sugar, and 1 tsp vanilla listed below “Milk Sauce” in the recipe are the ingredients that make the milk sauce, directions are in the ‘Instuctions’ on how to make it.

      Reply
  11. Liz says

    10.04.14 at 9:40 am

    All lovely recipes. Thanks so much.

    Reply
  12. Martha says

    02.03.14 at 3:32 pm

    Used to have this at church potlucks when I was a kid. Maybe I’ll try it with some pillsbury cinnamon rolls & the milk sauce. Probably a dessert women came up with back in the days of home-made butter.

    Reply
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