Creamed soup in dumplings???????? What??? Well I never.....
Mom's recipe and it's never been written down, it's one of those auto-pilot recipes for us, we don't even think about it anymore:
1 old hen
minimum of an 8 quart stock pot
4 pack of the cheapest canned buttermilk biscuits (look for the blue tubes)
SR flour for dusting
salt and pepper to taste
Start the day before by slowly simmering hen until it starts to fall apart. Remove hen from broth, stick broth in fridge overnight to congeal. Once hen is cooled remove skin and debone. Save out about 2 cups of meat and use the rest for whatever you like. Late the night before or early the day of, pop open cans of biscuits, dust with the flour and roll out to about 1/8" thick, slice into 1" strips (I use a pizza cutter) and lay out on baking sheets, don't worry about piling it up - it's fine we do this to ease prep during the making of the rest of the meal (usually Thanksgiving etc). Skim off the fat and gunk from the congealed broth. Start on heat, add the reserved chicken and get to boiling, add salt and pepper to taste at this point. Reduce heat to medium or so and drop in dumplings a few at a time, carefully stirring after each addition. Add until you have added them all, may need to add some more broth if this soaks up everything before they have cooked through but this should NOT be soupy. Should be really creamy and the dumplings should be done after about 25 minutes. Stir often or else you could burn the bottom.
I'm starting to drool just thinking about dumplings......