Babbling Brook’s Chicken And Dumplings

Total Time: 3 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 fat hen, whole or disjointed
• 7 tablespoons flour
• salt and pepper
• yellow food coloring
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 2/3 teaspoon salt
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 egg
• 2/3 cup milk
• 1 tablespoon oil or 1 tablespoon melted shortening

Recipe

• 1 cook hen whole or disjointed in 1 1/2 quarts of water seasoned with salt.
• 2 cook for about 3 hours.
• 3 when tender, lift out of the broth and cool. pick meat from bones and cut in small pieces.
• 4 thicken broth with 7 tablespoons flour and 3/4 cup water.
• 5 mix smooth with an egg beater.
• 6 season to taste with salt and pepper.
• 7 add a few drops of yellow food coloring.
• 8 strain over chicken.
• 9 reserve 4 cups of gravy in a flat stew pan for the dumplings. bring to boil when ready to cook dumplings.
• 10 to make the dumplings, sift dry ingredients into the blended egg, milk and oil and stir briskly until blended.
• 11 drop dumpling batter by teaspoonfuls into the boiling gravy.
• 12 cover and cook gently for 8-10 minutes or until done.