Yeah, my German mother and grandma used to make "Chicken and dumplings". It seemed to be boiled chicken, pulled off the bones, in its broth, with big lumps of cooked dough.
My stepmother made the best dumplings....or what we considered “dumplings” in our neck of the woods.
She dropped dough into a “soup” of sorts, a gravy kind of thing with vegetables and pieces of chicken. The dough was soft and pillowy inside and outside it took up the great gravy.
Whatever the case, in Georgetown Delaware it’s a big deal these Sussex county dumplings, hand to God, uncooked noodles tossed into a similar sort of soup as above.
Man, that just wasn’t happening for me.
Sounds like something my grandmother used to make.
I used to make what I called stew with dumplings, but they weren’t the old-fashioned, made with flour kind, I made the “dumplings” with Bisquick. But, they were tasty with the stew.