Golden Dumplings

This recipe is definitely blog worthy.  So, here we go.

This recipe originated from an Instant pot cookbook I bought called "The Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Cookbook" by Virginia Hathaway.  I give her all the credit, but I have made quite a few tweaks.  If you don't have an Instant Pot, I am guessing this could be tweaked for a crock-pot.

This dish is a cross between a cobber and doughnuts in our house.  My kids love it and they feel like they are getting a major breakfast treat.

The original recipe does not include fruit so I changed that. :-) 

Golden Dumplings
2 cups organic King Arthur all purpose flour
3 tsp baking powder, without aluminum
7 Tbsp Kerrygold salted* or raw butter (which is almost 1 stick of butter)
2 eggs, farm fresh
1/4 cup raw milk
2 Tbsp lemon juice
3/4 cup real maple syrup
4 Tbsp butter, additional
2 cups water
Fruit of choice (cherries, peaches, blueberries, etc)
(*If you don't use salted butter, add 1 tsp sea salt.)

1.  In the large bowl of your Kitchen-aid, fitted with the paddle mixer, place flour and 7 Tbsp of butter.  Mix until well combined and crumbly.
2.  In a separate bowl whisk eggs and milk with a fork
3.  Add egg mixture to the flour.  Then add lemon juice.  Mix.
4.  Once dough starts to stick to paddle, turn Kitchen-aid mixer off.
5.  In the bottom of the pressure cooker, combine the maple syrup, butter and fruit.  Bring to a boil on the saute mode.  Then turn off.
6.  Add water.
7.  Roll dough into golf ball sized dumplings and drop dumplings into fruity-syrupy goodness.
8.  Cook on Low Pressure for 5 minutes.
9.  Allow IP to NPR (natural pressure release).
10.  Enjoy with a big glass of raw milk!

I would like to eventually swap out half of the AP flour with sprouted.  It's on the "to do" list. 

This is what is left.

This is what the kids bowls looked like.

Enjoy!  Post comments if you make it.

Pumpkin Pie Recipe

Pumpkin Pie

From "The oils I use" International post

One drop each: cassia, clove, ginger and orange

2 cups of steamed or baked, mashed pumpkin (rinds to the chickens)

1 teaspoon of freshly grated ginger (or 1 drop of ginger oil)

1 cup of organic heavy whipping cream,

1 cup of organic sugar (or honey)

6-8 egg yolks (local, pastured)

Springform Pie crust, see below.

Blend and pour into a springform pan with a pecan-coconut crust, bake 75-90 minutes at 350, cool, refrigerate overnight to cure, and you have one gorgeous custard. Hubbard squash also makes a great pie.

Springform Pie Crust is the pressed form of a crumbled bottom:

Combine 1/2 stick of melted butter (KerryGold)

1 cup finely chopped pecans

1/2 cup coconut flour

1/4 cup organic sugar

Pumpkin pie spice to taste (Trader Joe's contains cardamom A+).

Let infuse/cool after stirring, press on glass/metal bottom of springform, pre-bake 15 minutes, cool, and add the pumpkin mixture prior baking.

Do not remove the "wall" of the springform until the pie has cooled 12+ hours; use a knife along the interior wall to aid separation sans damage, and the result is a gorgeous "tall" presentation of a true custard.



Enjoy!!