[Sca-cooks] The Great Corn Meal Dumpling Experiment

[Kekilpenny at aol.com]

First thank you to all who replied and gave me information. I gather recipes
and took them over to the folks house and we decided on one to experiment
with.  When Nonnie told Mom that "they aren't as good as you remember
them"...she was right. At least this first batch. We decided the secret
was...you mush up the dumplings into the soup (we did homemade navy bean) not
eat them as a whole object...blech. They had a heavy, course, strong "meal"
taste to them. We also decided that skim milk and fat free margarine didn't
cut it either. We need that "fat" content going on. With 2 tablespoons of
milk and 2 teaspoons of butter or bacon fat it wouldn't be a huge dietary
problem for them.  Next week...we will attempt this again but with Chicken
soup.

Mostly...I think this will end up one of those memory makers just as it was
70 years ago. In fact it has created a new project for us. We are going to
gather Mom's traditional recipes up and put them in a small cookbook for her
daughters, granddaughters and great grand kids (possibly a great great in the
next couple of years). The memories will be woven with stories from her
childhood of how she came up with that particular recipe or something
related.

Thank you again!

Molli Rose