Chicken and Dumplings-Floaters or Swimmers?

My father, grandmother, her mother and her mother all made thin broth, hand rolled dumplins.

Most of'em were floaters

I like swimmers I think

They're supposed to sink when they're cooked through. Until then they float.

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The floating stops when the dumplings are done.

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That's pretty much what happened with mine tonight.

MD you aren't pulling on a jug of Granny's roomatiz medicine are you? I have no clue what you said here.

He's channeling Cittwitt...

Granny quit making her medcin when the market bottomed out about five years ago. The revenuers got thick as flies on a dead possum around here and she got into the hard cider bidness.

I like my dumplings really thick and at our house they neither float or swim. They just sit there in very thick dumpling gravy, waiting for a fork to move them from bowl to mouth.

When they are all gone, I switch to a spoon, lest any of the dumpling gravy escape.

Anyhow, the only beverage I have had tonight came from a diet Dr. Pepper can.

I have developed a real hankering for some yard bird and dumplings just thinking about floaters and swimmers.

Wonder if the wife would make a big pot of them for dinner tomorrow night.

Flour mixed with milk...thickenin'...is a big necessary.

Well I hope she does and you enjoy your Saturday evening dumplings.

However beverage from a Dr. pepper can is pretty ambiguous. I've been known to have a beverage in a Dr Pepper can that would make a breathalyzer blush.

Oh I've never made them myself. Honestly I don't think I've eaten chicken and dumplings since she died in 2000, save for some pot my stepmom made that weren't very good. I need to try my hand at it. Maybe i'll amend my grandma's recipe book my uncle keeps stashed in his cedar chest.