[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 16, Issue 63

[Martha Oser]

> Considering that drop dumplings use baking powder (ca 1800?) for 
> leavening, I'd say that they're pretty much not period. 
> 
> You might find a recipe with bread dough being dropped into a boiling 
> soup, but I haven't come across such a recipe yet. 
> 
> - Doc

Hmm, well they don't necessarily have to be drop dumplings, do they?  My 
grandmother used to make cream of wheat-based dumplings to put in chicken 
noodle soup and I don't think they had any leavening in them.  Too bad she's 
dead or I'd ask her how she did them... 

 -Helena