Green Dumplings

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 1 -1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 3 eggs
• 3/4-1 cup milk
• salt
• 2 bunches beets, tops washed, chopped and stemmed
• 1 1/2 lbs bacon
• 1 large sweet onion

Recipe

• 1 clean, stem and chop beet tops. wilt in a small amount of water in pan. mix dry indgredients, adding eggs and milk, work in the cooled, chopped beet tops, this requires mixing with hands and it is quite messy.
• 2 you are looking for a medium to medium firm dumpling so if mixture is too wet and sticky add flour, if too dry add milk.
• 3 once you mix, form into dumplings about 4x1 inch, drop into salted boiling water and boil until dumplings rise and are firm.
• 4 drain and chill.
• 5 chop bacon and onion into bite size pieces, brown, add dumplings to heat through and serve.