Knepp Amish Dumplings Recipes

KNEPP (AMISH DUMPLINGS)

Steps:

• Sift flour, baking powder and salt together in a lg mixing bowl. Cut in butter w pastry blender or your fingers. Add milk and stir until dough is smooth. Drop by tablespoons into pot of boiling water (or stock, soup or stew) Cover pot with lid and simmer over medium heat for about 12 mins. DO NOT lift the lid during cooking. Remove w slotted spoon if cooking in water. Or serve in your soup or stew. Makes approx 10 dumplings

SCHNITZ UN KNEPP RECIPE

Steps:

• Boil the ham for two hours.
• Soak the dried apples for as long as the ham is boiling.
• When the meat is done, add the dried apples and however much water they have been soaking in.
• Boil for one more hour.
• You can reduce the boiling time if you want to but the flavor is better if you follow these directions.
• Prepare the dumpling batter by mixing all of the ingredients.
• Drop by tablespoons into the boiling liquid.
• Cook COVERED tightly for 15 minutes.

PORK, SAUERKRAUT AND DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Place pork roast into the bottom of a slow cooker and cover with sauerkraut with juice, applesauce, brown sugar, and 1 can beer. Set cooker to High, cover, and cook 3 hours. Reduce heat to Low and cook 4 more hours.
• About 1 1/2 hours before serving time, heat water with reserved pork trimmings in a large saucepan over low heat and simmer to make broth, about 45 minutes. Strain broth, discard trimmings, and pour remaining can of beer and kraut juice into the simmering broth. Bring the broth to a boil.
• Mix baking mix and milk in a bowl to make a sticky dough. Drop by spoonfuls into the boiling broth. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer dumplings for 10 minutes; uncover and simmer until dumplings are set, about 10 more minutes. For chewier dumplings, boil a few minutes longer. Remove dumplings from the broth with a slotted spoon and transfer to a serving bowl.
• Serve pork with cooked kraut and dumplings on the side; spoon thickened broth over dumplings.

AMISH DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Mix dry ingredients first.
• Add the beaten egg.
• Add few drops of water until you have a stiff, sticky dough.
• Drop 1/6 at a time in to hot, nearly boiling stock or on top of stew (with lots of liquid).
• Cover and cook 10 -15 minutes.

SCHNITZ UND KNEPP - DRIED APPLES AND DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Wash apples; cover with water and let soak at least 8 hours or overnight.
• Cover ham with cold water and simmer for 3 hours.
• Add apples and their water; continue to boil another hour.
• Add brown sugar.
• Add dumplings to the pot the last 18 minutes before service.
• To make dumplings: Sift dry ingredients together.
• Add egg, melted butter and enough milk to make a stiff batter.
• Drop by teaspoons into boiling liquid.
• Cover tightly and cook for 18 minutes.
• Serve piping hot on a large platter.