How to Prepare Yummy Mammaw Bailey's Chicken and Dumplings

Mammaw Bailey's Chicken and Dumplings. See great recipes for Mammaw's Cornbread Dressin' too!. See great recipes for Mammaw's Cornbread Dressin' too!. Chicken Cooked & boned (reserve broth), All Purpose Flour, Salt, Sugar, Sage, Crisco Mammaw's dumplings and chicken start with a bowlful of self-rising flour and end with a pot full of slippery, toothsome dumplings.

You've heard the story: Chicken and dumplings, a thrifty, belly-filling dish, was born of the Depression, a (relatively) quick and easy way to stretch meager scraps into a meal for a family. I know a lot of people make big puffy biscuit-like "dumplings", but this is how my Grandma made Southern-style chicken n' dumplings, and that is why they look like large noodles. I start by blending flour, salt, and shortening together using a pastry cutter, cutting it in until the shortening is the size of small peas. You can have Mammaw Bailey's Chicken and Dumplings using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Mammaw Bailey's Chicken and Dumplings

1. Prepare 2 1/2 lb of Chicken Cooked & boned (reserve broth).
2. You need 3 cup of All Purpose Flour.
3. It's 1 tsp of Salt.
4. You need 1 tsp of Sugar.
5. It's 1 tbsp of Sage.
6. It's 1 tsp of Crisco.

This old-fashioned recipe, courtesy of Chief Merchant Sean Pruett's Mammaw, is just as much a dumpling dish as it is a chicken soup. The original recipe starts with a bowlful of self-rising flour and ends with a pot full of slippery, toothsome dumplings. Feel free to serve this dish with as much of the resulting broth as you'd like. Flour dumplings are added to a peach syrupy mixture to create a wonderful dessert.

Mammaw Bailey's Chicken and Dumplings instructions

1. In large bowl mix flour and other ingredients..
2. Add 2-3 cups broth and mix..
3. Roll out dough flour and surface..
4. Then cut into 6 strings and pinch off and drop into boiling broth..
5. Add some water if needed to make broth less heavey..
6. Boil about 15 min. or low add chicken..

Using cream or canned milk instead of the milk gives this a creamier texture but also more calories. These are fabulous waffles and so quick & easy to make. Gently drop the dumplings into the simmering chicken broth. Stir them gently to prevent sticking. Serve with the carrots on the side and sprinkle the chicken and dumplings with a bit of chopped parsley, if desired.