For the first time ever I had to be ready to be prepared to make a majority of the food for thanksgiving. My grandma usually made everything and would just have a little bit of help, But since my grandparents had moved to Florida, My family was counting on someone to make them, and I had been the only one who ever truly observed the proper way of making her dumplings. I decided to practice before thanksgiving just to be sure I could get it down, Keep in mind the first time I began was almost midnight.. I had taken the bag of flour not pay attention and dumped it on the floor, missing the bowl by far, I sat there and just smirked at myself. I decided to leave it on the floor just until I was finished with everything. I then took the salt and sugar and put it in the bowl, I took the sifter and cracked the egg inside it because you're suppose to have the egg yoke slightly greated through out, to make it easier to kneed, later on towards the end. I didn't realize the bottom comes on and off and as i was walking to the other end of the kitchen it had slowly dripped all over the kitchen floor, I was in shock of how much of a mess I had been making that night, I still had not cleaned it up right away because to me, why clean if you may just continue to be messy? It's best to wait until everythingelse is done. I took the bread crumbs next and splattered those all around the bowl. Next I had grabbed the jar of dry yeast and took out the amount it needed and all I had remembered my Grandma mentioning was the word "disolve" as in disolving sugar and yeast together. And to me disolve can mean several different things, Such as spreading through something, or having something melt or get combined into a liquid object. At that moment, I wondered how you could dissolve dry yeast and sugar together.. I put that in the sifter as well, completely not realizing i never put the trapper back on the bottom and as I walked back to the bowl I had spilt everything all over the floor, I just laughed. I then go get a wisk to mix it all together, I am wondering why it is so dry so I had a little bit of water to make it a bit gushier. It still doesn't give it the right fluff, I could not remember what I was forgetting. As I'm sitting there thinking I hear foot steps coming down the stairs and I was staying at my moms old friends house, He comes down stairs and turns the corner and didn't see the mess, Instead he stepped in it, Just my luck. I sat there and acted like I didn't realize what he did, He then states my name and I slowly turn my head with a response of yes, as he slowly starts walking towards me im only considering the worse he said go get a mop and clean this up and I was in shock that's all he said so I hop out of the chair go grab it and when i get back to the kitchen he was gone. Before I could take the mop out of the bucket someone comes up behind me knocking the nerve in my leg that makes you fall and I fall in the mess I had created, He begins laughing at me and I was just disgusted. On the bright side of this story I figured out my missing ingredient was the milk and I re-created a brand new bach, after my shower of course and The dumplings came out just like my grandmas!
If you ever want to make these amazing dumplings all you need is 4 cups of Flour,1 cup of Milk, 2 Eggs, 1/4 cup of Bread crumbs, 1Tsp of salt, 1 pkg of dry yeast (if you buy the jar portion it says how much 1 pkg is considered it is usually about 1/4 of an oz) , and 1 tsp of sugar and to finish add 1/4 cup of warm water, and then just mix it and kneed into it and let it sit for about an hour to let it rise. You can either make 2 big ones or some medium size ones but however you lay them out to sit for an hour is how you need to leave them. Once you're done with that boil some water and place them in. These ingredients will only make you one batch, so if you want more you just need to double the ingredients and how many are in your batch depends on how big you make them but you can't make them to small or they could break on you.
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