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Vegetable Soup and Dumplings

This is a scrumptious, old-fashioned vegetable soup with dumplings that will stick to the ribs and healthfully satisfy the biggest appetite.

Directions

For vegetable soup, combine soup bones, 12 cups water, whole onion and bay leaf in a soup pot. Bring to boil and skim off foam. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, 3 hours or until meat falls off bones.
Remove bones, onion and bay leaf. Remove meat from bones and dice. Skim fat from stock. Add meat, chopped onion, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, cabbage, celery, beans and parsley to the pot and season to taste with salt and pepper. Bring to boil, then reduce heat and simmer, covered, 1 hour or until barley is done and vegetables are tender.
For dumplings, combine flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Add milk and stir until moistened, then drop by teaspoons into the vegetable soup. Cover and cook 10 minutes or until heated through.

Serves 12

The Ultimate Soup Cookbook, Reader's Digest

Ingredients

Soup
2-3 beef soup bones with meat
2 small onions, 1 whole and 1 chopped
1 bay leaf
4 medium all-purpose potatoes, peeled and cubed
2 carrots, cubed
1 1/2 cups whole tomatoes, cut up
2 cups shredded cabbage
2 celery stalks, sliced
2 cups cut green beans
3/4 cup pearl barley
Chopped fresh parsley
Salt and black pepper

Dumplings
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Pinch of salt
1/2 cup milk

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