"Knee Patches" Ham Soup Recipe
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Ingredients: Cook a smoked ham hock; or ham bone with some meat on it; or 2#'s of ham.
Dutch oven or larger soup pot
onions
salt
pepper
Dumplings:
3 cups flour
3 Tbsp shortening
1 cup milk
1 large egg, beaten
1/4 tsp. salt
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Directions:Cook meat in enough water to be able to cook dumplings in when done.
When meat is done; make dumplings next.
Mix dumpling ingredients with a pastry cutter first; then your hands.
When all mixed:
On floured surface, Roll all of dough out about 1/4" thick. Using a knife; cut dough in strips diagonally about 1-1/2" wide.
Then cut the long strips in the opposite direction at a diaganal so the pieces look like diamond shapes.
Take the little diamond dumplings and drop them in the boiling ham soup.
Stir a little while adding them in; so they don't stick together.
Cover pot with a lid and simmer until dumplings are done.
My mother would keep the soup on low after dumplings were done for about 1/2 hour. |
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Notes: The dumplings take on the taste of the ham!!!!!
This was one of our favorites growing up; and mom would make it almost every time she made a ham with the leftover ham bone.
I'm not sure if Grandma Hazel Elliott taught mother to make this, or Grandma Katie Koprivec; but it was one of my grandma's
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