Recipe - Mrs Kitchings Oyster Stew And Dumplings

oyster stew
1 pt Standard oysters with liquor
Dumplings (recipe below)
1 One half cup Water (including oyster
liquor)
Salt and pepper to taste
1 small Onion; minced finely
1 cup Evaporated milk
3 tablespoon Butter
dumplings
One half cup Flour
One half teaspoon Salt
One half teaspoon Baking powder
1/8 cup Water

Cook oysters in 1 One half cups liquor and water until edges of oysters curl.
Pinch tiny dumplings from dough and drop into cooking oysters. Add minced
onions and cook over medium heat for about 15 minutes or until dumplings
are no longer doughy. Heat milk, water, and butter. When hot pour into
oyster stew. Serve at once.

For the Dumplings:

Sift flour, salt, and baking powder. Add water a little at a time, and
knead to form dough. Pinch off tiny dumpling balls 1/4inch round for
oyster stew.

Recipe from "Mrs. Kitching's Smith Island Cookbook"

Recipe reprinted with kind permission from "Mrs. Kitching's Smith Island
Cookbook" by Frances Kitching and Susan Stiles Dowell, published by
Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, MD, c. 1981. Available from booksellers
or by calling 18006387641.

Entered for you by: Bill Webster
Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #844 by Bill Webster thelma@pipeline.com on
Oct 14, 1997