The royal baker and pastry cook : $b A manual of practical cookery

marbles, drop into soup, cover, and boil 10 minutes. =Egg Dumplings for Soup.=—Beat 2 eggs, add ¼ teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons milk. Sift 1 cup flour with 1 scant teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, add egg mixture, and more flour if necessary to make thick batter. Drop by half teaspoonfuls in boiling soup; cover, cook 10 minutes. =Dumplings for Stews.=—Mix and sift 1 pint flour, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, ½ teaspoon salt. Mix to soft dough with milk. Turn on board, roll out 1 inch thick, cut in small circles. Roll each in flour, drop on top simmering stew. Cover, cook 20 minutes without opening pot. =Dumplings for Stews, 2.=—Mix 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, ⅓ teaspoon salt. Add milk to mix to thick batter. Drop by small spoonfuls over boiling stew, and cook as in preceding receipt. =Suet Dumplings.=—1 cup bread crumbs, 2 tablespoons finely chopped beef suet, whites and yolks 2 eggs beaten separately, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder sifted with 1 cup flour, sufficient milk to mix to stiff paste. Flour hands and make into balls. Wring small cloths in hot water, dust with flour, lay ball in each and tie, leaving room to swell. Cook in rapidly boiling water 45 minutes, and serve with liquid sauce (see Sauces). =Potato Dumplings.=—1 dozen large potatoes, 6 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 tablespoon butter, 3 eggs, salt, and nutmeg. Grate potatoes, which have been boiled and skinned the day before; mix with the flour, previously sifted together with baking powder, add the melted butter, and eggs one by one, and salt and nutmeg to taste; form into balls about size of a small apple, put into boiling water, which has been well salted, boil 15 minutes; take out with skimmer, and serve with any kind of fricassee or pot-roast. =Suet Dumplings (Danish).=—1 cup suet, chopped fine, 1 cup grated English muffins or bread, 1 cup flour, ½ teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, ½ cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1 pint milk, large pinch salt. Sift together powder and flour, add beaten eggs,