riffles or lumps
(2 RATINGS)
This recipe is at least 300 years old... (and NO... it is not one that I created in my younger years! LOL) Way back when... foods were frequently in shortage and were time consuming to prepare. Saving crumbs could mean the difference between eating or going without. Cooks would scrape the rolling pins and boards and gather all the crumbs after making biscuits, noodles, breads and pies. They put the scraps into jars. When they had saved enough scraps, they would use them to make Riffles. Also known as LUMPS. Each cook developed recipes around using up these scraps. Now we use a formal recipe just because it's fast... and good!
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prep time
10 Min
cook time
5 Min
method
Stove Top
yield
varies depending on how you use them
Ingredients
- FORMAL RIFFLES RECIPE
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 medium eggs
- FORMAL FLAVORING
- 1/2 cup milk or cream
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- OPTIONS FOR FLAVORING
- - butter
- - cream
- - milk
- - sugar
- - cinnamon
- - nutmeg
- - salt and pepper to taste
- - soup, stew, eggs
How To Make riffles or lumps
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Step 1Cut together all ingredients in a bowl until little flakes or balls form.
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Step 2Boil three cups of water with 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Toss in the Riffles. Boil and stir until the Riffles are transparent and the liquid is thickened.
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Step 3At this point you decide what you want to flavor this with. Milk? Butter? Cream? A combination of them? salt and pepper, cinnamon and nutmeg? sugar? Or do you want to throw it into a pot of soup or stew?
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Tag:
#Quick & Easy
Culture:
English
Ingredient:
Flour
Method:
Stove Top
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