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Californian here, and I am intent on cooking a good southern Chicken and Dumplings tonight. Can someone give me a proper southern recipe that I can follow? I've never attempted to cook this meal before.

>> No.4861509

>>4861504

quick, how much butter do you have on hand....NO ENOUGH. go get more.

>> No.4861519
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>>4861509
2LBS ISN'T ENOUGH!? GASP!

>> No.4861523

>>4861519

No all the measurements are in scoops out of a five gallon bucket.

>> No.4861530

Chicken breast, 1 whole bone-in (weighs about 2¼lbs)
Water, 2 quarts
Flour, 2 cups
Yolks, 3
Egg, 1 whole
Water, as needed
Salt and pepper, to taste

Place chicken and water in a pot.
Set to high heat.
When just bubbling, lower heat to maintain a low simmer.
Simmer until liquid is reduced by about half in volume, skimming scum from time to time as it forms.
Remove breast from broth and strain broth through fine sieve.
Bring broth back to a simmer; meanwhile, combine flour, yolks and egg.
Add just enough water to yield a stiff, but workable dough.
Add salt and pepper to the dough to taste.
Drop balls of dough into the simmering broth and simmer 3-5 minutes until cooked through; meanwhile, remove bones from chicken.
Pull or shred chicken meat and place in broth.
Salt and pepper to taste and serve.

That's close to the original. The original used a whole hen rather than just the breast. The reason I recommend breast is because reasons, but use a whole chicken if you'd prefer.

I prefer Pennsy style, which is thickened with a white roux and has some vegetables. The dumplings for that one tend to be flat discs or squares more similar to pasta than dumplings proper, but actual dumplings are not all that uncommon. Pennsy-style is sometimes called "dutch pot pie."

>> No.4861536

>>4861530
Thanks anon. I do appreciate it. Recipe has been printed and is ready to be followed.

>> No.4861556

>>4861536
Sweat a mirepoix (1 part carrots, 1 part celery, 2 parts onion. Can be a rough chop, youre going to strain this out.) in your stock pot before adding your chicken and water if you want to go ahead and make a classical stock. A few Bay leaves and garlic cloves
too.

>> No.4861561

>>4861556
will do. have no celery but i suspect thats fine?

>> No.4861586

>>4861561
It'll be missing a little something, but it's not a huge deal.

>> No.4862006

I fucked my dumplings up :(

2 hours of work ruined. I compressed the dough into balls when I was supposed to just spoon it in.

>> No.4862091

>>4862006

JIMBO GETTA ROPE
>naw op got dem perdy' teef'

>> No.4863448
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4863448

I'm attempting to redeem myself today.

I have a a sausage jambalaya on the stove right now that should be done in 45 minutes. I used a cup of tomato sauce, 2 hillshire farms sausages, 2 cups of long grain rice, 1 cup of a 2006 dry white wine, tabasco & tony chacheres, a bell pepper, some parsley and 1 1/2 of onions.

I really fucked my dumplings up last night. I unknowingly used fucking wheat flour, on top of fucking up the density of the dumpings. They tasted like shit.

Let today be the day I redeem myself.

>> No.4863462

>>4863448
>used wheat flour
as opposed to what? it's supposed to be regular-ass, AP wheat flour. maybe you just don't like dumplings.

>> No.4863465

>>4861530
>no chicken broth
this recipe is going to be bland as fuck.

OP, you should've just followed Alton Brown's recipe. I do remember him spooning the dumplings. You goofed.

>> No.4863469

>>4863462
no it wasn't the correct flour, im certain of it. The dumplings were brown, and tasted like whole wheat bread, and because i smushed them into balls they were still practically raw flour in the middle. It was a huge let down. I've had this meal before, I've just never made it, and fucked up royally.

>>4863465
I'll get it right next time, if there is one. I was surprised at how much work this meal was. It was a huge let down when it came out like shit.

>> No.4863476

>>4863465
wow... just wow. you are this fucking retarded... 2 quarts of water simmering down to one quart makes... what? oh: that's right! chicken broth.
goddamned know-nothing AB cocksuckers. if any of you actually knew how to cook, you wouldn't throw around his name like it somehow makes your bullshit valid. it doesn't.
protip: most storebought broth is far less meaty than the one detailed in that recipe (USDA says that water with .74% meat or bone can be considered broth and yes, there is a fucking decimal point there).
go mongle AB cock s'more, you buttbandit.

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4863509

>>4863469
OH! you meant whole wheat flour? i shoulda guessed, but i wasn't thinking, clearly. derp on me.
yeah, they should be white. there's a type of swiss/austrian dish (both countries eat it) very similar to american chicken and dumplings that uses breadcrumb to make the dumplings instead of flour. 1 cup breadcrumb, 1 large egg, salt to taste and just enough water to form a dough. form into balls and drop into the broth, then simmer 5 minutes or so. delicious.
just a tad bit easier than american flour dumplings (which are already painfully easy... if you use the right flour, i guess).
you know for next time, at least!
hugs for effort and to make feel better about feeling like you wasted time.

>> No.4863520

>>4863476
without mirepoix, more bones and hours of cooking your "broth" is going to be bland as fuck. end of story. go fuck your sister or whatever it is you rednecks do to pass the time.

>> No.4863530

>>4863509
Thanks, I gave it my best, I'm pretty new to cooking, and might have gotten myself in over my head. I've learned my lesson. Gotta get back to the kitchen, my jambalaya is done!

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>>4863520
>waaaaaaaaaaaaah someone told me that all the trouble i go through is unnecessary! BUT I LIKE IT! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
protip: you mad.

>> No.4863559

JAMBALAYA IS A GLORIOUS SUCCESS! IT TASTES AMAZING! THE FEELS!

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>>4863530
next time, m8
there's always next time.
>mfw you used whole wheat flour
sorry to have a giggle, but i don't think i've ever even seen that stuff in anyone's home before. it's so stereotypically california. hehehe.

>> No.4863565

>>4863559
^^^ What was said ~~~ ^^^

>> No.4863566

>>4863560
I wasn't expecting it to be whole wheat flour. I think its from when my mom went through a breadmaking phase.

>> No.4863568

>NCR thread
Sage.

>> No.4863571

>>4863560
They're california types, who cares?
Let them go spinning and watching so called celebrities.

One thing they did right though is enact some serious laws about fracking. That's something that needs to be addressed in New York.

>> No.4863576

Developing our own oil and fuel reserves scares the shit out of the muslims/saudies and I like that.