That HomeSteading Mama

It’s Not a Dumpling: The Soul of Chicken and Pastry If you walk into a kitchen in southeastern North Carolina and call the steaming pot on the stove "chicken and dumplings," you might get a polite but firm correction. To the outside world, the distinction might seem small, but to those of us raised on these red-clay lands, the difference is everything. Dumplings are often thick, leavened "drops" of dough balls that sit on top of a stew like fluffy clouds. They are lovely, bu