Dumplings

[Badgers]

Cook in the oven first?
Or you can take the lid off the stew pot in the oven towards the end and crisp the tops?

 

[Biddlybee]

crispy top, soggy bottom?

you'll have to cook one night and show me how it's done

 

[ymu]

I want to like them. someone needs to make me dumplings that are nice, that aren't soggy. How do they not get soggy if they're in the stew?

You need a nice thick gravy and a long slow cooking time, IMO. For extra unsogginess, remove to a shallow dish and bake for the last ten minutes.

 

[tarannau]

Dumplings are meant to be doughy really. No point in putting a ball-shaped biscuit in your stew, is there?

 

[joustmaster]

dumplings are fucking ace.
its cold enough to start making stew as well.
mmmm

 

[ymu]

crispy top, soggy bottom?

you'll have to cook one night and show me how it's done

You know how when you're cooking a tomato sauce and it starts off all watery but if you simmer it gently for a while it goes all thick and rich and yumbly? Do that with your stew gravy and your dumpings won't be soggy. It's the same difference as pasta served with a proper tomato sauce and pasta mixed with a heated up tin of tomatoes.

 

[Biddlybee]

I've never made dumplings it's just experience of eating them.