beef or venison stew with dumplings

Ingredients For beef or venison stew with dumplings

• 2 lb

  beef or venison cut into 1 inch cubes
• 1/4 c

  flour
• 2 tsp

  salt
• 1/2 tsp

  pepper
• 3 Tbsp

  oil
• 4 clove

  garlic minced
• 1 tsp

  each sugar and worcestershire sauce
• 1

  bay leaf
• 4 sprig

  thyme tied in a bundle
• 5 c

  beef stock
• 2 lg

  carrots sliced
• 1 md

  onion diced
• 3 lg

  potatoes peeled and diced in bite size pieces
• 3 Tbsp

  fresh chopped parsley
• DUMPLINGS
• 2 c

  flour
• 2 tsp

  baking powder
• 1 tsp

  salt
• 1/2 c

  crisco
• 1 c

  milk