Jessie'S Chicken And Dumplings - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 c. flour
2 1/2 tsp. salt
water
1 large chicken, cut up
chicken broth
pepper

Preparation

Cook chicken until tender in 4 quarts of salted water. Remove chicken from broth.
Cool chicken and remove meat from bones.
Add enough chicken broth to give 5 - 6 quarts of broth. Mix flour and salt together.
Add enough water to make a soft ball of dough.
Roll out dough to about 1/4 inch thick, cut into strips.
Bring broth to a boil, then drop 8 - 10 dumplings into broth stirring them lightly.
As broth comes back to boil, add 8 - 10 more.
Continue until all dumplings are in pot.
Cook at a full boil approximately 5 minutes stirring lightly to keep dumplings separated.
Add cooked chicken meat back to pot.
Boil 2 minutes more.
Remove from heat, cover and wait 20 - 30 minutes before serving.
Sprinkle with black pepper.