Recipe - Stewed Chicken N Dumplings

4 pound Stewing hen; or large
broilerfryer
3 cup Sifted flour
1 teaspoon Salt
2 teaspoon Baking powder
One half cup Shortening
1 cup Milk

Cut chicken into serving pieces and place in large kettle with salted water
to cover. Cover and bring to boil, then reduce flame to simmer and cook
until tender.

While chicken is cooking combine flour, salt baking powder.

With pastry blender, fork or two knives, cut in shortening.

Add milk, mixing well.

Turn out onto lightly floured board or pastry cloth and knead lightly.

Roll out to 1/8" thick. Cut into strips.

When chicken is tender, drop strips into kettle. Cover and continue
simmering
20 minutes.

Possum Kingdom Lake Cookbook

MC Formatted using MC Buster 2.0d & SNT on 4/10/98
Posted to MCRecipe Digest by Barb at PK abprice@wf.net on Apr 21, 1998