Dumplings

Ingredients

• Flour 2 cups
• Baking powder 4 teaspoonfuls
• Salt i teasx>oonful
• Butter 2 teaspoonfuls
• Milk } cup

Method

1. 1

   Mix and sift dry ingredients.

2. 2

   Work in butter with a knife, add milk gradually.

3. 3

   Remove enough liquid from stew so that when dumplings are dropped in they will rest on top of meat.

4. 4

   Drop by spoonfuls and let cook about twenty minutes.

5. 5

   The stew should be thickened before dumplings are dropped in.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Foods and household management (1914) by Helen Kinne, page 113. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

dumplings. Lean meat 3 pounds Potatoes 4 cups, cut in \ inch slices Turnip Carrot } cup each, cut in half inch cubes Onion i small one, cut in thin slices Flour J cup Salt Pepper Wipe meat, cut in 1^ inch cubes, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and dredge with flour. Cut some of the fat in small pieces and try out in frying pan. Add meat and stir con- stantly, that the surface may be quickly seared. When well browned, put in kettle, and rinse frying pan with boiling water, that none of the flavor may be lost. Cover with boiling water and boil Ave minutes, then cook below the boiling point until meat is tender (about 3 hours). Add vegetables except x>otatoes and seasoning the last hour of cooking. Parboil potatoes five minutes and add to stew 15 minutes before taking from fire. Teacher's Note. — Broiled steak would be suitable for group work, using small steaks (Delmonico cut). A small roast may be prepared by a group and roasted after class. This meat and that left from the steak should be used in a subsequent class for a lesson on left over meat. Broiled or pan-broiled chops may be prepared individually. MEATS AND POULTRY 225 Thicken stew with J cup flour mixed with enough cold water to pour easily. Pour in deep hot platter and surround with dumplings. 6. Dumplings. Flour 2 cups Baking powder 4 teaspoonfuls Salt i teasx>oonful Butter 2 teaspoonfuls • Milk } cup

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