"limey" wrote in message >

Wayne wrote:
.. My grandmother never really
>> called them anything but "dumplings", not even "rolled dumplings", as it
>> was the only type she made. I doubt she had ever heard of a drop
>> dumpling.
>>
>> Wayne Boatwright
>
> That's the only type my mother made and only for beef stew.

Sorry - this comment is not clear. The *drop* dumplings were the only kind
my mother made, never the rolled ones (which, in turn, she may have never
heard of!).

She called
> them suet dumplings (guess what they had in them), yet they puffed up and
> were light as feather. I wish I had her recipe. But then, I wish I
> had a lot of them - I just wish she had recorded them.
>
> Sadly, my mother-in-law was (truly) an atrocious cook. I dare not
> mention dumplings to my husband or he turns green.
> May she RIP.
>
> Dora
>
> Dora
>