I LOVE Chicken and Dumplings. Here's the basic recipe I use. I usually tweak it with some herbs or whatever else strikes my fancy at the time.

Chicken & Dumplings

1 chicken, cut into quarters
1 Tbsp. chicken seasoning
2 cups flour
3 Tbsp. baking powder
1 cup whole milk
2 tsp. lard or vegetable shortening
1 egg beaten
1 tsp. salt

Boil chicken in enough water to cover, along with chicken seasoning, until meat can easily be removed from bones . Place meat back into cooking liquid. Mix remaining ingredients to form a dough and spoon into boiling chicken pot liquor.
Cover pot and simmer until dumplings are cooked.

my grandmother also taught me her recipe for chicken n dumplings. its pretty much the same, except i just make my dumplings from 3 cups flour, dash of white pepper, and enough water to make a good pliable dough. and we roll ours out and cut into strips.

i love the fact that my grandmother passed on her prized recipes (i also got the rice pudding recipe!!! lol) and that i can now pass them on to my kids.

Here's a great thread on the "Crockpot Cooking" tribe I'm a member of. We really had fun talking about Chicken & Dumplings but, for me, it's more appropriate to discuss it here.

crockpotcooking.tribe.net/threa...a8c56d