Chicken and Dumplings

This was great, easy and comforting.
Here is what I did.
In my slow cooker I layered
1. medium sized whole red potatoes
2. 1 quartered onion
3 Frozen chicken breast
4 carrots, ( celery and leeks would be good too.)

Then I mixed
1 can cream of chicken
about 1/2 can of broth
some poultry seasoning 1 tsp maybe
2 teaspoons about of Susie Q seasoning
and dumped it over the chicken.
I cooked it on medium low for about 5 hours.  If the chicken is thawed then cut the potatoes in half and it should cook faster.

Dumplings
These were so good and light!
1 C Flour
3/4 C cake flour (softaskilk)
2 t baking powder
1/2 t soda
3/4 t salt
3 T shortening
I mixed these in my kitchenaid with the cake paddle untill it was crumby (just go slow!)
Add 1 large egg
3/4 C butter milk.
about 40 minutes before serving, turn it up to high, and twenty minutes before serving use a big spoon to shape a dumpling and place it ON TOP of a piece of chicken or potato. If you just put it on the sauce it will just disintigrate.



They don't brown so just give a little toothpick test.
For dinner trade I kept the wet and dry ingredients separate becuase I didn't know how it would react.