Yeast-Dumplings
INGREDIENTS for dumplings for 6 to 8 persons. quartern of dough, boiling water. AVERAGE COST, 4d.
Make a very light dough as for bread, using to mix it, milk, instead of water; divide it into 7 or 8 dumplings; plunge them into boiling water, and boil them for 20 minutes. Serve the instant they are taken up, as they spoil directly, by falling and becoming heavy; and in eating them do not touch them with a knife, but tear YEAST, TO MAKE. them apart with two forks. They may be eaten with meat gravy, or cold butter and sugar; and if not convenient to make the dough at home, a little from the baker's answers as well, only it must be placed for a few minutes near the fire, in a basin with a cloth over it, to let it rise again before it is made into dumplings.
TIME. -20 minutes.
SEASONABLE at any time.
