Recipe and directions are at the bottom. I like to give a little background so as to prepare you for your aventure!
I wanted to begin my blog with something that everyone can relate to: home. And Plum Dumplings is my recipe interpretation of home. This was a dish that my sisters and I begged my mother to make all the time but we were disappointed more than not because this recipe requires plum prunes which have a short season during the late summer/early fall. This recipe has Hungarian roots and tastes better than any lame cookie you could make for dessert. The taste of sweet and salty is mixed deliciously into a whammy of carbohydrates and fruit in this recipe so put your safety gloves and goggles on because you're about to do an experiment!
DUMPLINGS
2 1/2 cups - All Purpose Flour
1/2 tsp. - Baking Powder
1 tsp. - Salt
2 Tbsp. - Sugar
1 cup - Mashed Potatoes
4 Tbsp - Butter (softened)
4 - Egg Yolks
12 - Prune Plums
Sauce
1/2 cup - Butter
1/2 cup - Brown Sugar
Turn on some Alice in Chains. Make a cut in each of the plums as if to slice in half. Do not cut in half completely; this is just to pit the fruit. Pull the pit out and sprinkle some sugar in the open space and then close the halves. Set aside.
Bring a pot of water to a gentle boil on your stove. While you are waiting on the water, let's make some dough. Mix the Flour, Baking Powder, Salt, Sugar in a bowl. Fold in the cup of Mashed Potatoes, Eggs, Butter and knead completely.
Take a sip of beer. Now use a rolling pin to flatten out the dough and make it a little less than 1/4 of an inch thick. Cut off enough dough to wrap around a plum and then some. You want enough dough to seal around the fruit. Pinch the dough closed and roll the whole thing in your palms to even out the distribution of dough. Repeat this for all of the plums. I hope your water is boiling. Drop those babies in for about 15 minutes. Make sure that as your are boiling the dumplings, that you give enough space -don't over crowd!
Heat a skillet with some butter and when the dumplings are done boiling give them a light browning. Warm the Butter, Brown Sugar in the microwave and mix thoroughly. Now slap some sauce on those dumplings and serve.
And it's alright to tell yourself that no one else deserves them and eat them all by yourself. I won't tell.
