Jennifer'S Herb Dumplings - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup flour (preferably cake flour)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt (seasoned salt if possible)
3 tablespoons butter, soft
1/2 teaspoon black pepper, coarsely ground
1 tablespoon finely chopped parsley
1 tablespoon finely chopped onion
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1 egg
milk, to mix

Preparation

Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
Rub in the butter with your fingers until crumbly.
Mix in pepper, parsley, onion and thyme (or use basil or rosemary, whatever you fancy).
Beat the egg well in a small bowl, and add. Stir in roughly.
Now add just enough milk to make a sticky dough -- not too wet, not dry, just sticky enough to stick to your fingers.
The soup (or meat stew with a lot of sauce) should be simmering. Drop in dessertspoons of the dough, scraping it out of spoon with a finger, into the soup.
Cover the pot. Simmer 20 minutes. By now the dumplings should be cooked.
Take off the lid, and simmer for a further 5 minutes or so, so that the tops of the dumplings dry a little.
Real comfort food on a cold night!