Mrs. Smith's Delicious Chicken Pot Pie

Ingredients:


1 1/2 cup All purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoon Baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup shortening
1 egg
1/4 cup milk
1 fryer chicken; cooked, boned and cut into pieces
2 cans Cream of Chicken Soup
3/4 stick butter
6 cups Chicken broth
Salt and pepper to taste


Preparation:

Dough for Dumplings and Pie:

Sift together 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour, 1 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp salt.

Cut in 1/4 cup solid shortening into flour mixture.

Add 1 egg and 1/4 cup milk beaten together.

Turn dough onto a floured board. Knead lightly to blend.

Chill in refrigerator (usually overnight).

Pie Filling:

Roll out dough paper thin, cut in strips (save enough strips to go on top of pie).

Cut the other strips for dumplings.

Heat the 6 cups of broth to a rolling boil and drop in the dumplings.

After all dumplings have been dropped into broth, cook a few minutes then take out the dumplings and add the chicken soup to broth.

Use an egg beater to remove all lumps.

Then, add the cut up chicken and dumplings and pour into a large pan (a large broiler pan works well).

Arrange the strips of dough on top of the pie.

Cut the 3/4 stick of margarine all over top of pie and bake until crust is golden brown.

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