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

On 2024-12-18 6:07 p.m., S Viemeister wrote:

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?

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

I would not make the dumplings my mother made! Traditional suet dumplings.
OK for farm workers labouring in the cold of winter but not me.