Recipe - Chicken And Dumplings

2 cup Flour
One half teaspoon Sifted baking soda
1 teaspoon Salt
One fourth cup Crisco
1 Egg
1 cup Buttermilk
1 Hen
One half teaspoon Salt

In 810 quart saucepan with lid,stew in hen in water until tender with salt
& pepper. Remove hen, skin & debone; set aside. Mix flour, soda, One half ts.
pepper, & One half ts. salt. Cut in Crisco until crumbles. Add milk. Mix well &
turn on well floured surface to roll. Sprinkle flour on top & roll very
thin. Makes approximately 17x25inch squares. Bring chicken broth to a
boil & drop dumplings in one at a time. Keep dumplings separated. Simmer
15 min. Serve immediately. You may return chicken to pot or serve
separately.

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