Potato Dumplings - cooking recipe

Ingredients

9 medium potatoes
1 tsp. salt
3 eggs, well beaten
1 c. sifted flour
2/3 c. bread crumbs or farina
1/2 tsp. nutmeg

Preparation

Boil potatoes in their jackets until soft.
Remove skins and press potatoes through a ricer.
Add salt, eggs, flour, 2/3 cup bread crumbs and nutmeg.
Mix thoroughly.
Form mixture into dry balls about the size of walnuts (if mixture is too moist, add more bread crumbs).
Drop balls into boiling, salted water.
When balls come to the surface, boil, uncovered, for 3 minutes.
Remove one from liquid and cut open.
If center is dry, they are sufficiently cooked.
Remove balls from liquid.
Serve with gravy, mushroom sauce or onion sauce.
Serves 12.