Title: Fruit Dumplings with Variations
Categories: Dumpling
Yield: 6 Servings

2	c	Flour; sifted
4	ts	Baking powder
1/2	ts	Salt
1	tb	Sugar
3	tb	Shortening
1	c	Milk
1	c	Fruit

Mix and sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar: cut in shortening. Add milk, stirring quickly to make a stiff dough. Stir in 1 cup fruit such as seeded grapes or berries and drop from tablespoon into rapidly boiling salted water; cover and cook 12 minutes. Drain and serve, with any desired sauce.

Maple Dumplings: Use fruit Dumpling recipe above, omitting fruit; cook in syrup made of 2 cups maple syrup and 1 cup water. Serve Dumplings with syrup as sauce.

Quince Dumplings: Use fruit Dumpling recipe above omitting fruit. Fill muffin pans half full of quince sauce or preserves and drop dumplings mixture on top. Bake in hot oven, 425° for 15 to 20 minutes or steam in steamer for 15 minutes. Serve with lemon sauce.

Lemon Sauce is in another post. TD

Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #6

Recipe by: America's Cookbook-1945

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