Recipe: My Grandmother's Chicken and Dumpling Recipe

My Grandmother's Chicken & Dumpling Recipe

1 onion
Few stalks of celery
Chicken fryer
salt to taste
4 cups flour
1 - 3 eggs
1 - 3 tablespoons fresh parsley
Few cans of emergency chicken broth
Half and half
Pepper to taste

Slice onion and celery, and puree in blender. Place chicken in large pot, and add vegetable puree and 2 teaspoons salt. Cover with water. Boil until chicken is cooked, making sure you always have enough water to cover the chicken. Remove chicken from broth. Put both into refrigerator to let them cool. When cool, take the meat off the bone. Put broth into medium to large pot, and bring to a boil. Put flour into a large bowl, and make a well. Pour 1 cup warm broth, 1 egg, 1/2 - 1 teaspoon salt, and 1 tablespoon parsley into well. Mix ingredients in the well ONLY using a fork until a soft dough forms. Let it rest. On a well floured surface, roll out the dough (flipping it while rolling) until very thin. Flour dough, and cut into parallelograms. Put several parallelograms into the boiling broth. When they float to the top, they are done. Place dumplings into a crock pot on low. If broth level gets low before all dumplings are cooked, add chicken broth from a can. After all dumplings are done, place chicken, half and half, and pepper on top and mix. Let warm before serving.