Re: WHY? (Re: One-pot dish)

On 12/18/2024 11:08 PM, Jill McQuown wrote:

On 12/9/2024 5:37 PM, Carol wrote:

Jill McQuown wrote:

I drop them by scant teaspoonfuls into simmering soups and stews and
call them drop dumplings.

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I've heard that name a lot.  Southern isn't it?  Or is it also real
common up north?

 My maternal grandmother added drop dumplings to her beef stew.  She was born in Scotland and after the emigrated, wound up living in the mid-West (Ohio).  Hardly what I'd call "southern".
 

I learned to make those dumplings from my Scottish mother, who learned from her Scottish mother, who learned from her...