Chicken Dumplings - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 whole hen
2 c. flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. baking powder
pinch of salt

Preparation

Cook one whole hen in large pan on top of stove.
Add water continuously as it boils and evaporates.
Salt hen.
Cook for about 4 hours or until tender.
Remove from pot and brown in oven. Dip out 1 cup of broth from cooking pan.
Set broth aside until it is cool, but still warm.
Mix in flour, soda, baking powder and salt until dough has a biscuit-like consistency.
Knead and roll out 1/4-inch thick on floured board.
Cut in strips until dumpling pieces are about 2 x 2-inches.
Bring remaining broth in cooking pan to a boil.
Drop dumplings in one at a time.
Cook until tender with a fork.