The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

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CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS


It’s    gonna   be  tough   not to  stick   a   joke    about   my  late    pup
Dumpling in here somewhere, but I’ll try my best.

Once you realize that chicken and dumplings is nothing
more than chicken stock combined with biscuit dough,
adding this dish to your repertoire is a snap. Here, you
learned how to make an awesome chicken stock in record
time, and we explored the science of biscuits in our
breakfast chapter (see here), so the only question is: does a
biscuit recipe need any modification to cook properly in the
moist environment of a soup pot?

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