Chicken And Dumplings - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 whole chicken, deboned
2 c. flour
1/2 c. shortening
ice water
salt to taste
pepper to taste

Preparation

Boil chicken 1 1/2 hours.
Cut shortening into flour.
Remove chicken from broth.
Pour 1/3 cup broth into shortening and flour. Boil remaining broth.
Add ice water to flour mixture until it makes a thick ball.
Salt and pepper broth to taste.
Roll dough out 1/8 inch.
(Note: Harder the dough, better the dumpling.)
Cut dumplings in strips and put in broth.
Boil 8 minutes.
Pick chicken off bone and put in broth.
Do not stir chicken to bottom. Cook until chicken is warm.