Grape Dumplings

[kirra]

Grape Dumplings
Cherokee Nation

Ingredients:

1 cup flour
1-1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tbsp shortening
1/2 cup grape juice

Preparation:

Mix flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and shortening. Add juice and mix into stiff dough.

Roll dough very thin on floured board and cut into strips 1/2-inch wide (or roll dough in hands and break off pea-sized bits).

Drop into boiling grape juice and cook for 10 - 12 minutes.