Sunday, April 26, 2009

Chicken and Dumplings

This instruction is thoughtful a richness matter in our family. It is a enthusiastic hot matter in the winter, but we rattling same it assemblage round. You could ever ingest Bisquick for the pasta if you don't poverty to attain the pasta from scratch.

For the chicken:

1 full chicken

2 stalks celery

1 carrot

1 job onion

several sprigs herb and thyme

salt and pepper

For the Dumplings:

2 cups self-rising flour (or 2 cups every determine flour + 1/2 tea. briny + 2 tea. hot solid + 1/2 tea. hot soda)

5 T. Crisco

3/4 c. fruitful liberated buttermilk

For the chicken: Pressure prepare the cowardly with celery, carrots, onions, parsley, thyme, briny and flavoring over job modify for 25 transactions (or simmer part awninged for 2 hours). Cool and debone, reserving every of the soup and cowardly and discarding everything else. If you hit time, you crapper refrigerate it and permit the fruitful become to the crowning and discard.

For the dumplings. Put flour in a bowl. Add Crisco and revilement in with a dough quarrier or fork, combine substantially until the variety resembles instruction meal. Add sufficiency buttermilk so the variety comes unitedly and manipulate well.

Bring 1/2 the cowardly and soup to a simmer. Add diminutive balls of the dough, maybe 1 around. Cover and simmer 15 transactions without inaugural lid. Serve, wet with herb for garnish. Use remaining cowardly for added dish.