Aunt EthelS Old Fashioned Chicken And Dumplings

Ingredients

• 2 to 3 lb chicken cut up
• 1 onion chopped
• 12 c celery chopped
• salt and pepper to taste
• 2 c plain flour
• 2 large eggs
• 13 c oil
• ice water about 1 c

Directions

1. Stir flour eggs and oil together
2. Then add a little ice water at a time until mixture forms a ball
3. Sprinkle ball with flour for easy handling and divide into 3 balls
4. Roll each ball out on well-floured board real thin
5. Cut into 2-inch squares and drop in simmering broth where chicken was cooked
6. Should have at least 2 quarts of broth
7. Repeat with each ball rolling thin cutting into squares and dropping in broth
8. Stir well and simmer about 10 minutes
9. Add cut-up chicken
10. If broth seems too thin thicken with a little flour dissolved in water