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

S Viemeister wrote:

On 12/19/2024 8:38 PM, Janet wrote:

In article <vk1so7$30con$1@dont-email.me>,
cshenk@virginia-beach.com says...

 
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.

 
  " scottish and english (welsh) " ???
 

 
It seems that few schools teach geography these days.

It seems that the Welsh fell under England for several hundred years
and my ancestors left during that time. The reference was to what they
were at those times.

My ancestors were a mix of England, Welsh (at that time part of
England) and others from England plus the scots.  You are right though,
Geography was less emohasized here making more time for math and
science courses then later computer classes.

I was taking calculus, physics, and chemistry while apparently I should
have been studying trivia about Scotland, England, and the Welsh...
Sorry about that but you'll have to live with it.