Instructions: Mix and sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar: cut in shortening. Add milk, stirring quickly to make a stiff dough. Stir in 1 cup fruit such as seeded grapes or berries and drop from tablespoon into rapidly boiling salted water; cover and cook 12 minutes. Drain and serve, with any desired sauce.

Maple Dumplings: Use fruit Dumpling recipe above, omitting fruit; cook in syrup made of 2 cups maple syrup and 1 cup water. Serve Dumplings with syrup as sauce.

Quince Dumplings: Use fruit Dumpling recipe above omitting fruit. Fill muffin pans half full of quince sauce or preserves and drop dumplings mixture on top. Bake in hot oven, 425 for 15 to 20 minutes or steam in steamer for 15 minutes. Serve with lemon sauce.

Lemon Sauce is in another post. TD

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