Lost and Found

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I have been trying like crazy to recreate my grandmother’s Chicken and Dumplings recipe. My grandma hasn’t made the recipe in years due to arthritis and just getting older and I was told that the recipe was never written down. I thought I had written it down once when I was 19 or so, but have either lost the recipe, or just imagined that I had written it down – wishful thinking maybe.

Many of you know I entered the recipe I made up in to a baking challenge, but even that recipe wasn’t quite right. It was missing something. It was missing my grandma’s touch. That special combination of ingredients that takes me back to when I was a child.

The days we would visit my grandma, when we would go swimming, help her with puzzles and of course when we sat down to a wonderful lunch and got to spend time around the table laughing and talking.

Fast forward to now — We have been packing on all of our days off over the past few weeks. A couple of weekends ago (the day before my birthday to be exact) I found something that I wasn’t so sure ever really existed in the first place.

My grandma’s Chicken and Dumpling recipe!

There it was, on the first few pages of an old palm-sized notebook at the bottom of a box. The handwriting of a 19 year old – a VERY SMART 19 year old! I wrote the freakin’ recipe down!

It is quite different than what I had submitted to the contest and I can’t wait to make it. I also have the instructions for the home-made dumplings. Once I try it out to make sure it’s good, I will share it in both it’s full version and I will make it into a slow cooker version.

I am actually quite excited that it is different than the recipe I submitted, because now I can post it as our own family favorite recipe with recipe credits to my grandma.

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