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Yeast Dumplings

Yeast dumplings are boiled dough pieces served with meat, gravy, or cold butter and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Yeast Dumplings

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dumplings

  1. Make a light dough for bread using milk instead of water.

  2. Divide the dough into 7 or 8 dumplings.

Cook and serve

  1. Drop the dumplings into boiling water and cook for 20 minutes.

  2. Serve immediately, tearing them apart with two forks instead of using a knife.

  3. They can be enjoyed with meat, gravy, or cold butter and sugar.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Dough
Forms the dumplings, and its yeast-leavened structure gives them a light, bread-like texture.
Milk (in the method)
Replaces water in the dough, adding richness and softness to the crumb.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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