Chicken with Dumplings
List of Ingredients
Whole chicken, unjoint and cut in piecesSelect a nice hen.
Make a dough for the dumplings as follows:
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon salt, and
1 egg and 1 egg yolk
1 tablespoon shortening
Recipe
Put Chicken pieces in a large pot, cover well with water.
Cook slowly for about 2-1/2 hrs till tender.
Then add salt to suit taste, cook about 10 min.
Remove the meaty pieces of chicken from the liquor, leaving the bony ones.
Make the dough and add enough flour to make a stiff dough.
Use rolling pin roll out very thin and cut in strips; put a few at a time into the chicken broth, cooking each batch until done.
Continue till all are in the pot, then pour over the pieces of chicken which have been removed and serve.
Leaving the bony pieces in the pot keeps the dumplings from sticking to the bottom and burning.
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