Mae's Chicken and Dumplings

 

4 chicken breast halves cooked (boil in a 6 quart pot until done). Then cut chicken into bite size pieces and put back in chicken broth.

 

Then;

   Add a stick of butter

   Add 2 cans of cream of chicken soap (w/o MSG)

   Add salt and pepper to taste.

 

Keep pot on low heat and add dumplings and simmer until dumplings are done.

 

Dumplings

3 cups of self-raising flour

½ cup of oil (Crisco)

Milk

 

Mix flour and oil in a large bowl and add milk sparely; the dough should be stiff when done.  Break dough into four equal balls.

 

Spread ½ cup of flour on sheet of wax paper; put one ball on the wax paper and knead dough until it is not tacky.  Using a rolling pen. roll into a ¼ inch sheet.  Cut dough with a knife into 1 inch squares and drop into the pot.  Repeat for remaining balls of dough.