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

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.

 
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...

It would be intersting if sometime long upwind of me, a long ago
ggranny taght a granny of mine that!  (yes, long on this side of the
pond but scottish and english (welsh) long ago.