How do you make dumplings? Because emkana has seen the error of her ways and will...

[emkana]

... make a 100 % homemade from scratch meal tomorrow, jawohl!

Yum - scratch and dumplings, my favourite

Emkana it won't really be good enough unless you go out to the farm and kill the free range organic dumplings your self y'know?

Well, you need 300 chicken vaginas...sorry cloakas. Then you blend them with a couple of brain lickers and add sixteen cheesestrings. Coat in sherbet and deep fry in lard for twenty minutes.

Chuffin' gorgeous.

Waitrose.

Look! I was serious here!
How do you make dumplings?
(Waitrose too posh for me - can I buy organic dumplings in Asda? )

Darling, just go to Waitrose, you can shoplift, tell them I sent you But in fairness, if dumplings are to be attempted, should they not be done from scratch?

They are a mixture of flour, fat, herbs and baking powder mixed up with some water and then lobbed into your stew and cooked in the liquid - I think but I would google if I were you as we don't have them in Ireland and I have never actually made them.

6oz SR flour
3oz suet
saly, pepper, water to bind.

Of course, suet is a tricky one. What is the provenance if using beef suet? Organic? And veggie suet presumably contains hydrogenated fats....

Of course, you could probably buy 'proper' suet from a butchers and grate it yourself....

That's salt BTW, not saly

And yes, herbs do make them more tasty. Or very finely chpped mushrooms.

And it must be self raising flour (or add baking powder). Or you will break your teeth.

Thanks becky.

Couldn't face it today (we had Lasagne instead, mostly homemade )

but maybe tomorrow - so I need to know: what is suet and where can I buy it?

suet is available from supermarkets. It is hard fat that has been grated. Usually beef

any supermarket for the dried packet stuff. Can get meat or vege.

I made horrid ones yesterday. Advice I received was to make them very small (ping pong ball) following the packet recipe, and put casserole in the oven to avoid sogginess.

i.e advice to avoid repeat performance

I make my stew on the top of cooker in a large saucepan with lid and pop the dumplings in on the top for the last 20-30 mins. Yes ping pong ball size is good. You can make more. It is half fat to flour. I always make 8 oz of flour and 4 oz of suet.