Southern Style Chicken And Dumplings - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 chicken
broth
salt and pepper
2 1/2 c. milk
2 c. self-rising flour
dash of salt

Preparation

Cut chicken into serving pieces.
Leave skin on.
Cook about 80 minutes until tender.
Cook in about three times as much water as you have chicken.
When chicken is tender, remove from broth and set aside, covered.
Season to suit taste with salt and pepper. Mix 1 cup flour with 1 1/2 cups milk.
Stir until well mixed.
Add to broth to make it thick.
Mix 1 cup flour with 1 cup milk.
Add salt.
Dip a teaspoon into thickened broth, then get a spoonful of batter and drop into broth.
Do not stir.
Continue dropping spoonfuls of batter into broth until all is used.
Cover and let cook 10 minutes.
Take a spoon and very gently turn dumplings over. Cover and cook 10 minutes.
When finished, gently drop chicken pieces back into pot.