Mrs. Spoon's Chicken & Dumplings

by Stacey
from Virtuous Daughters, October 2004~Volume 4, Number 7

Cook a whole chicken with 2 or 3 sticks of celery, 2 or 3 carrots, salt and pepper. Remove celery, carrots and chicken when tender. After chicken cools, remove it from the broth, cut it into bite sized pieces and set aside. Combine:

• ¼ c. shortening
• 2 ¼ c. flour
• 1 tsp. salt
• ¾ -1 c. milk

to make a stiff dough. Chill dough for 15 min. Roll out dough very thin, cut into 1 inch squares (a pizza cutter works great for this). Drop pieces of dough into about 2 quarts of boiling chicken broth (add some canned broth if you don’t have enough from cooking the chicken). Cook until dumplings are done, add chicken and enjoy.  

PS-These always went quickly at covered dish suppers when my grandmother took them to church.