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Aunt Goldie's Chicken and Dumplings




Source of Recipe


Chef Gramma Claudia


Recipe Link: http://groups.msn.com/GrammaClaudiasOzarkHeaven/familyfavoriterecipes.msnw

List of Ingredients




The Chicken:

1 frying chicken, old hen or whatever's in the freezer

The Dumplings:

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup whole milk or 2% with dry milk solids added for extra umphhh - Milnot works great

4 tablespoons vegetable oil - Aunt Goldie insisted on chicken fat, but we just can't do that to each other - right?

The Dumpling Sauce:

3 tablespoons butter or margarine

4 tablespoons flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup whole milk - use those powdered milk solids or Milnot

2 chicken bouillon cubes, crumbled

1/2 teaspoon sugar

1/2 to 3/4 cup dumpling cooking liquid after dumplings have been cooked in it



Recipe



Stew up your chicken on top of the stove or in a crockpot. Cool and debone. Defat the remaining liquid in an effort to be kind to your family. The old-timers wouldn't do this as it was their thought that the flavor came from the chicken fat... Well, it might, but our arteries will thank you!

Mix above dumpling ingredients. Blend them well and turn out onto a floured surface. Knead four or five times and divide dough into two parts. Roll out one piece of dough to 1/8" thick and cut into 1x1-1/2" strips.

Place into a large saucepan that you have placed 8 cups of water and three chicken bouillon cubes that has been brought to a boil and the bouillon cubes have been dissolved. Cook half of the dumplings until just about done and strain and set aside. Next finish the other half of the dumplings the same way.

While cooking the dumplings you can prepare the sauce.

Dumpling Sauce: Place butter in medium saucepan and melt. Add salt and flour. Stir until thick. Mix sugar with milk, and add to flour mixture a little at a time and stir constantly with a whisk until thick and smooth. Remove from heat.

Place cooked dumplings and chicken in dumpling sauce and add 1/2 cup of cooking liquid in which the crumbled chicken bouillon cubes have been added. Stir gently.

Simmer dumplings until blended on low heat. More cooking liquid may be added if needed.