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From: cplma@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Lynn M Alford)
Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
Subject: CHICKEN: Chicken and Dumplings
Summary: orig. subject: CHICKEN: Chicken and Dumplings
Keywords: recipe CHICKEN
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.042944.22823@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 91 07:00:46 GMT
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In <1991Apr06.004156.16082@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> 
hastings@jpl-devvax.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Sheri Hastings) writes:

>HELP !!!   My grandmother used to make the most wonderful chicken and
>dumplings. They were fattening but delicious. She was a Pennsylvania
>Dutch woman who lived in Kentucky.  That sort of background really

I'm not quite sure how thick your grandmother might have made this but
I would start with a chicken and a quart of water then boil the chicken
until it is easy to remove the flesh from the bones.  Remove it from
the pot and let cool.  While the chicken is cooling, add spices to the
pot (parsley, celery seeds, salt, etc.) and whatever vegetables you
would like (carrots, celery, etc.).  Remove all the meat from the
chicken bones and put the meat in the pot.  Start the pot boiling
again.

Now in a bowl, you want to stir together 1 1/3 cups of flour (not
self-rising), 2 t of baking powder, 1 t chopped parsley, and 1/2 t of
salt until these dry ingredients are thoroughly mixed.  Now measure 2/3
c milk and 2 T salad oil into a cup.  Slowly stir this into the flour
mixture until a soft dough forms (try to avoid stirring for too long.)
Drop dough by heaping tablespoons on the chicken stew.  Cook them for
ten minutes uncovered and then ten more minutes covered.  Serve.

(Dumpling recipe is based on the Good Housekeeping Cookbook, ed. by Zoe
Coulson.  Chicken recipe is just based on throw it into the pot till
done. :-) )

(Query would any one be interested in seeing a Peaches and Dumplings
recipe?)

Lynn