Chicken Dumplings - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 c. sifted flour
3 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. butter
1 egg
3/4 c. milk
1 whole chicken

Preparation

Simmer chicken in 4 cups water for 1 hour.
Remove chicken from broth.
Sift flour, baking powder and salt together.
Cut in butter.
Beat egg and add milk; stir this into dry ingredients (batter should be quite stiff).
Drop by spoonfuls into chicken broth (or roll in flour like biscuits).
Cover pot.
Raise flame to 1/4 flame.
Steam for about 20 minutes without lifting cover. Remove cover and serve with or without chicken.