| This is my third article on dumplings. As reported earlier | | | | craved the creamy taste. I added salt, pepper, chicken |
| I'm on a lifelong trek to find the secret of Mrs. Mullen's | | | | seasoning, and just a titch of Cajon seasoning to give |
| Swedish Dumplings. She was my neighbor when I was | | | | it a small kick. |
| a kid and always fed me her cooking delights when I | | | | I got the mixture boiling in just a minute, reached in the |
| went over to her house to do the chores. | | | | refrigerator for a can of biscuit dough for the |
| In previous articles I reported that biscuit dough from | | | | dumplings-and came up empty! |
| the refrigerator department of your grocery store | | | | Now I was in big trouble. |
| makes better dumplings than what I've been able to | | | | There was a tube of cinnamon dough. |
| make from existing recipes. The best of these to my | | | | Dare I overcome my hang-up about cinnamon dough |
| taste is croissant dough. After the breakthrough I | | | | dumplings on soup? |
| describe here, I'm not so sure of that. | | | | I though it over. Well, this soup does have a creamy |
| I mentioned earlier that I was afraid to try cinnamon | | | | taste. That might go with sweet. |
| bun dough from my grocer in soup. Then I reported | | | | I took the cinnamon roles one by one and carefully |
| that I had a delightful late-night breakthrough using | | | | placed them on top of the boiling soup. My they looked |
| cinnamon dough over seasoned peaches which gave | | | | pretty there with the soup boiling around them. But |
| me a sugar high that kept me awake all night. The | | | | how would they taste? |
| previous articles where Dumplings: My Deepest | | | | While they boiled the first ten minutes or so uncovered, |
| Culinary Secret ( and Peaches with Cinnamon Dough | | | | I put the frosting that came in the tube on gram |
| Dumplings: My Amazing Late Night Vision ( | | | | crackers. Then I put the lid on the pan and let it boil |
| Yesterday my thirteen Idaho grandkids showed up at | | | | another ten minutes or so. I let the soup simmer down |
| church without my son and his wife. We saw most of | | | | for a few more minutes. My wife spooned the soup |
| the kids walking to church. The rest showed up later | | | | and dumplings in to large bowls. |
| by car. But no parents. | | | | WOW! |
| Every Sunday we have Sunday Dinner with our | | | | Wir haben es wiederholt! |
| grandkids-except when the house is full of flu bugs | | | | This first phase is from the translator at |
| and such. I always bring the cake. | | | | We use to say in Colorado: Wir haben es wieder |
| Well, the parents had the bug so I told my grandkids I | | | | gemacht! |
| would drop the cake off later. | | | | We said that when we made a breakthrough in the |
| After church, I would have to cook dinner. | | | | laboratory. |
| Now that was okay for me but I had to have | | | | But no matter how you say it in German, in English it is: |
| dumplings. | | | | We have done it again! |
| When I got home, I chucked into my big pot a can of | | | | That's what I said to my wife. This was the best |
| carrots, a can of mushrooms (not saving the | | | | dumpling dish yet. |
| mushroom juice for some reason), a can of chicken | | | | And of course, I ate the desert. Cinnamon bun frosting |
| and rice soup, and a can of creamed chicken and | | | | is delightful on graham crackers. Ummn! |
| vegetable soup. The later was added because I | | | | |