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

Exchange Newsletter by LVFG53A@prodigy. Com (Mrs Ira M Dennis) on Aug 14,