My Uncle Arthur liked to talk, and a taste for exaggeration, so naturally he said to the best stories you ever heard. We might really turn the television off, when he started one of his tall tales. My favorite was his version of my granddad"s car accident, an event that happened at least twenty years back, and the tale had improved with every passing year. All of us children called it his barbecue sauce story, and it is going something similar to this :
Remember the good old days and big family dinners at grandma"s house?÷ One of the staples at my paternal grandmother"s house was chicken and dumplings.÷ It was just something expected when we went to Sunday dinner at grandma"s.÷ In going through my vintage recipe collection I came across these two dumpling recipes that reminded me of those long ago meals.÷ I thought you might be interested in some old fashion dumpling recipes, too.÷ Both of these recipes are from Indiana, one from an acquaintance and one from a favorite aunt.