A wonderful recipe for home made chicken & dumplings, just like my sister Edith made!
Ingredients
- ▢ — 1 hen (or 4 large chicken breasts – do not remove skin)
- ▢ — 1 stick butter
- ▢ — 4 cups plain flour (sifted)
- ▢ — salt & pepper
Instructions
- ▢ — Cook chicken in large pot (cover chicken with water) until well done. Let cool.
- ▢ — Remove chicken from pot. Shred and save until later.
- ▢ — Pour 2 cups cooled broth into bed of flour to form dough.
- ▢ — Divide dough into several pieces and roll out with rolling pin.
- ▢ — Cut dough into strips.
- ▢ — Reheat broth in pot to rolling boil.
- ▢ — Add butter and allow to melt.
- ▢ — Drop dumplings into boiling broth. Let boil 5 to 10 minutes.
- ▢ — Put shredded chicken back into pot and boil 5 minutes more.
- ▢ — Salt and pepper to taste.







Lisa
June 24, 2015 3:54 pmHow do you use the butter?