OLD FASHIONED SOUTHERN BUTTER ROLL
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Old Fashion Southern
Old Fashion Southern Butter Roll
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Wow, I wish I had not passed it over so many times before. I love it!! It was economical, quick, easy, and delicious!!
Old Fashion Southern Butter Roll
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Save To Your Recipe BoxIngredients
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
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Am I missing something?? I can’t seem to find the sauce recipe?? Looks so good i wanted to try it! 🙂
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’.
Sorry I still don’t find the recipe for the Milk Sauce, can someone help???
It’s the last 3 ingredients and the second set of instructions
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!
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.
I am so glad you can make it for him! I love preserving these old recipes. Please let me know if he likes it!
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!
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.
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.
I love these. I’m from Memphis and butter rolls will definitely draw a crowd. But what is milk sauce?
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.
All lovely recipes. Thanks so much.
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.
Paula,
I’ve never seen this before but I’m intrigued. Pinned.
Annamaria
It really is good, just all the milk that it cooks in is odd to me.
I grew up eating Butter Roll Dessert My Mom Effie Gaskin could make the best
I really enjoy them too. Thanks for stopping by
My granny makes this (from Louisiana) and she uses butter pats all on the inside and out side. She does not cut the roll. She rolls it up and bakes it complete. The butter is key.
Had this as dessert growing up in the South
Glad I found the recipe , will have to try again
Had it a child growing loved it, glad I found the recipe
its an awesome recipe thanks
That does sound interesting, but the end result looks delicious!
This looks sooo good — though I'd be like Big Daddy lookin' all weird at them before they went in the oven. Thanks so much for sharing on Busy Monday!
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