Here it is my Grandmother's Chicken and Dumplings recipe...


Chicken and Dumplings

 

First, rinse your whole chicken.... place chicken and 1/2 of onion along with 2 celery sticks diced into pan... cover with water. Boil for 45 minutes until chicken is done.

Strain the chicken broth into a seperate bowl.. set aside...let chicken cool.. then pull  the meat off the chicken... put into a seperate bowl.

Add 2 cups of all purpose flour in a seperate bowl with 1 tsp. salt and 1/3 cup of shortening such as (Crisco) cut into flour mixture with two forks or with a pasty cutter as shown in the picture, until your flour looks like pea size balls (about 5 minutes.)  Add 3/4 cup cold water... mix with fork until you can form a round ball of dough, (like pizza dough.)

 Roll dough out to about a 1/4 inch thick and about 12 to 18 inches in length.

Cut strips with a pizza cutter into squares (whatever size you perfer.)

Pour your reserved chicken broth back into the large pot that you cooked your chicken in...bring to a boil...then start placing one dumpling  at a time until all dumplings are in the pot...Let boil for five minutes...(If your broth is not thickend after five minutes you can add 2 Tablespoons of  tapioca flour or corn starch to 2 Tablespoons of water...mix well then add to your dumpling mixture...)

Now, turn off the burner..add your chicken meat to the pot...put on a pair of stretchy pants sit back and get ready for my grandmoter's amazing chicken and dumplings...Enjoy


Ps. 34:8, "Taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man who takes refuge in him."