Chicken and Dumplings!

Another winter favorite of my family. If you have been following this blog you would have seen Old Fashion Chicken Soup. This will be the basic of Chicken and dumplings with a few additions. After making your chicken soup add a can of cream of celery

and bring it up to a healthy simmer. Then add your dumplings and put a tight lid on it and continue cooking for about 20 minutes gently dunking your dumplings once. Here is the recipe for the dumplings. I like a lot of dumplings so I usually double this recipe.

 

Dumplings

 

2 Cups Flour

3 tablespoon shortening (Crisco or the like)

1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda

1/2 teaspoon of salt

3/4 cup Buttermilk

 

In a bowl, add the flour, salt, baking soda and mix. 

Add shortening and rub together till like course meal.

Add Buttermilk,

mix and turn out on a well floured surface. Roll out to about 1/2 to 3/4 inch thickness.

 

I use a pizza cutter (the wheel kind) to cut into about 1 1/2 inch squares.

Use a spatula and transfer to your soup. Cover and cook for about 20 minutes as mentioned above. There you have it!

 

 

There you have it! Serve it up! It re-heats great in the microwave and the dumplings don't disintegrate either.

 

 

Enjoy!

 

Steph

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