Grandma's butter rolls
8 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | cups | Flour |
| 1 | teaspoon | Salt |
| ½ | cup | Shortening |
| 5 | tablespoons | Water |
| ½ | Stick butter | |
| ½ | cup | Sugar |
| ½ | teaspoon | Nutmeg |
| 1 | cup | Sugar |
| 2 | cups | Milk |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
Directions
Mix flour, salt and shortening. Add water. Make a smooth ball. Divide this into 4 balls. Roll each out on a floured board to thickness of pie crust.
Sprinkle with pieces of the butter--Grandma used fresh cow butter--and the sugar and nutmeg mix together. Roll up and seal ends. Make 4 rolls like this and place in an iron skillet.
Pierce through each roll with fork in 3 or 4 places. Bake at 400 degrees until brown and crisp.
Meanwhile, mix 1 cup sugar, milk and vanilla. Pour this over browned rolls and return to the oven for 5 minutes.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
FROM J. WILL HICKS, JUSTICE OF
THE PEACE
From a collection of my mother's (Judy Hosey) recipe box which contained lots of her favorite recipes, clippings, etc. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .