Recipe - Plum Dumplings

3 tablespoon Butter or margarine
3 cup Flour
2 cup Cooked; mashed, sieved
potatoes
1 teaspoon Salt
2 Eggs; slightly beaten
Plums; washed and dried

Cut the butter into the flour until as fine as cornmeal. Add the mashed
potatoes, eggs, and salt, mixing until smooth. Roll out to 1/4inch
thickness and cut into 3 to 4inch squares. Place a plum on each piece and
carefully and completely surround with dough. Gently put a few at a time
into boiling water, not allowing the water to boil too vigorously. Cook
about 15 minutes. Check often while cooking.

These may be steamed instead, if desired.

Serve with melted butter, sugar and cinnamon, or even a little cottage
cheese. Some people like them with buttered and browned bread crumbs.

Note: My mother's favorite way of preparing fruit dumplings would be to
saute them in butter (after they were boiled), and then sprinkle them with
the cinnamon and sugar.

Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 546 by QueenBerta
QueenBerta@aol.com on Jan 17, 1998