Jennifer's Herb Dumplings

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

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

Recipe

• 1 sift flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
• 2 rub in the butter with your fingers until crumbly.
• 3 mix in pepper, parsley, onion and thyme (or use basil or rosemary, whatever you fancy).
• 4 beat the egg well in a small bowl, and add. stir in roughly.
• 5 now add just enough milk to make a sticky dough -- not too wet, not dry, just sticky enough to stick to your fingers.
• 6 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.
• 7 cover the pot. simmer 20 minutes. by now the dumplings should be cooked.
• 8 take off the lid, and simmer for a further 5 minutes or so, so that the tops of the dumplings dry a little.
• 9 real comfort food on a cold night!