Recipe - Blue Corn Dumplings

1 cup Blue cornmeal
2 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Solid vegetable shortening
1/3 One half cup milk

Mix the blue cornmeal, baking powder and salt thoroughly in a bowl.

Add the shortening and work the ingredients together with a pastry cutter
or fork until the mixture resembles coarse meal.

Add enough milk to make a batter of medium consistency, not too thick or
too thin.

Drop batter by teaspoonfuls on top of stew or chil in a pot.

Cover the pot tightly and steam the dumplings for 15 minutes. DON'T PEEK!!
The stew or chile should be kept simmering over mediumlow heat during this
process.

After 15 minutes, remove lid and serve the stew or chili with the
dumplings.

Contributor: Chile Pepper Magazine, MM format by Roy Olsen Posted to
MMRecipes Digest V4 #222 by roy@indy.net (Roy) on Aug 22, 1997