Help Please! Dumplings without suet?

janb5

I havent used suet for years except in Christmas pudding when I use veg. suet.

My recipe for dumplings is to mix 4oz SR flour with 2 oz marg( I use Clover, a tsp of dry mustard mixed herbs pepper and salt. Rather than add water , use a small amount of milk to combine and form into small balls. I add mine about 40 minutes before the end of cooking time and they are light and fluffy.

cuddlymarm

Hi:hello:
I've got a wartime cookbook and all they say you need to do for dumplings is to mix plain flour and herbs with water and then shape into little balls with floured and hands and drop in the stew and cook gently.
I've done this a few times and they are a bit heavy but taste OK, really filling on a cold day.
Nice in soup too:rotfl: :rotfl:

needaspirin

cuddlymarm wrote:

Hi:hello:
I've got a wartime cookbook and all they say you need to do for dumplings is to mix plain flour and herbs with water and then shape into little balls with floured and hands and drop in the stew and cook gently.
I've done this a few times and they are a bit heavy but taste OK, really filling on a cold day.
Nice in soup too:rotfl: :rotfl:

Do you think that self-raising flour or baking powder would lighten them up a bit. I think that I'd go for that.

jobbingmusician

Thank you all for this thread - stew with dumplings sounds a lovely idea to me, but DH doesn't like suet. So guess what we're going to have now?

needaspirin

Deleted_User wrote:

Can you put your cobblers in the slow cooker?

I don't think so as the oven has to be fairly hot and the lid left off. I think it would work for dumplings placed in a slow cooker for the last 1/2 hour. I don't have a slow cooker but am thinking of getting one. If anyone tries cobbler or dumplings in the slow cooker I would be interested in how it turned out.

DilbertJones

Is this possible? if so how?

Alos not entirely sure how to make them with suet so if someone could post how

Bogof_Babe

Not sure why you pose the question, but Atora do a vegetarian suet, which may answer the question which I'm not sure why you posed . Instructions are on the packet!

squeaky

Yep!

See here:-

Help Please! Dumplings without suet?

I'll add this thread onto the end of the older one when you've seen this.

Good luck

Rikki

You can make what they call a cobbler.

Cobbler
225g (8oz) Flour
225g (8oz) Cheddar Cheese
25g (1oz) Butter
2 Eggs
2 tbsp Milk
1 tbsp Parsley
1 tsp Prepared Mustard

HTH

culpepper

I use self raising flour and marg with water.They puff up beautifully in stew and they're not as heavy as suet dumplings.
Mix flour and marg till dryish breadcrumb texture then add drops of water till it holds together in a ball.