How To Make Yeast-Dumplings

Take flour, yeast, salt, and water, and make them into a light dough, in the same manner as for bread; cover it with a cloth, and set it for half an hour before the fire. Then make it into round balls of the size of a goose-egg, and flat them. Put them into a saucepan of boiling water, and keep it boiling constantly. They will be done in a quarter of an hour. Then take them up and lay them in a dish with melted butter. If you can have the dough ready made at a baker's it will save trouble.

How To Make Hard-Dumplings

Make a paste with flour, water, and a little salt; Form them into balls of the size of a turky's egg, and flat them. Roll them in flour and throw them into boiling water, and keep them in half an hour. Some may be mixt with a few currants. They will relish belt when boiled with a piece of beef.

Another Way To Make Hard-Dumplings

Rub a good piece of butter into some flour, and make a paste as if for pye-crust. Make them up and boil them as above.