This is a recipe that my Grandma made up until she could no longer sit or stand to cook. As she got older, her love for cooking never ended, and so she would get an old wooden stool and sit in her kitchen cooking.
Today, she is 96, and although, she has remained firmly planted to the old ways of cooking, where you used lard, instead of canola oils, and she ate gravy every day and fried every meat, instead of baking, she is a very healthy woman still.
Here is her recipe, that I use still, in fact, I made it yesterday, a big pot, and shared it with Al and my son and his family, and there is one small bowl left, so this tells me I still got the knack!
Home Made Potato Soup With Rivals
Peel potatoes and cut up bite size. Cook until almost complete. While potatoes are cooking, break two to four eggs, depending on how much soup you want, using a whisk, beat them up, add salt and pepper for taste, then mix enough flour to make a pizza dough firmness. With fingers take pieces of dough and roll off of your fingers, allowing smaller pieces to fall in
interesting! i’ll try this! 🙂
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we love it and i hope you do. make sure the dough is dry enough to drop in pieces easily into the water, when potatoes are nearly done
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thanks! i’ll refer again to your post tomorrow. i’m not really a good cook so i always bring the recipe with me while i cook. 🙂
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there are no measurements for this old recipe, use as many potatoes as you wish. if you make a big batch of potatoes, use four eggs, medium batch, use two eggs, your dough will be like a pizza dough, but a little dryer. it should roll over of your fingers while dropping it in to the hot water. it should not stick to you
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Terry, what an interesting recipe – never had a potato soup with what I would call dumplings.
This I have to put on file. What a great age your grandma has reached. 3 years on my mum. Brilliant. My mum can’t stand anymore neither.
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i am not sure if you will like this recipe or not. your foods are much fancier, and this is a hearty soup for a wintery day, made of simple ingredients at home, but i hope you try it, and if you do, I am sure you will let me know what you thought. we love it here in the midwest, where the winters are bitter and food is high priced. one good thing about this recipe is you can spice it up with so many different flavors, which i do…………..u may enjoy that!
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My food isn’t fancy – never do anything fancy .. fancy food you get on star restaurants – I never worked on one of them. I don’t know if I will like the soup neither – because of the potato or the dough in the same pot – both are starch. But I have saved your post – because it tickles me.
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great!!! i understand the carb thing, but we only have it once in a while, and we watch what we eat then the rest of the day!
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In my eyes, you are a top star!!!!
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This recipe sounds yummy!
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we really like it here, and you don’t need any special ingredients, which is the best part!!!! maybe you will try it!
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I’ll let you know if I do!
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Sounds good and filling as you say …with some warm bread…yummy!…mkg
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the bread is an idea, although we have never eaten bread with it. the potatoes and the rivals are total carb and starch, lol, it is so filling, oh! and let me know if you make it and how you liked it!
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I’m for anything that includes cheese!
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me too, I am a cheese aholic!!!!!
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