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.

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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, .

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