I can't really give you the exact recipe, because I'm going to considering this a family secret. Although, I'm sure it'd be real easy to find a recipe for potato dumplings. Listed below are photos from when Terry and I made potato dumplings Christmas weekend in honor of Grandpa Brock who had passed away last Christmas and was a dumpling maker master.
The first couple steps include putting raw potato chunks through a meat grinder and then draining most of the juice from these potatoes. Once you've come to a consistency that isn't sticky and can form a ball, you will want to start shaping the dumplings. All it is is just packing the potato and bread mixture into a firm ball.
The next step is to add the ground up potatoes to dried cubes of bread. You will want to do this until the bread cubes have softened. Once the cubes have softened you will "add flour until it feels right," as Grandpa Brock would say.
Once you have formed all the mixture into balls you will want to boil the dumplings. And this is the hard part, waiting for approximately 45 minutes until the dumplings have been floating at the top of the pot for awhile. Grandpa used to check the dumplings by cutting one open at the 45 minute mark and giving it a taste test.
And here you have the finished product, we usually serve ours with pork tenderloin and sauerkraut. So there really isn't much color to this meal, but it sure is delicious! And Terry wanted me to include the after picture of what it looks like to consume too many dumplings, bare in mind he had a six pack before this meal :)
Bon Appetit!
Victoria
You two are so silly..... The dumplings were great!!
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