Ingredients. - Half a pound of flour. Salt. Time required, about twenty-five minutes.

To make Hard Dumplings:

1. Put a saucepan of warm water on the fire to boil.

2. Put half a pound of flour into a basin, and mix in half a salt-spoonful of salt.

3. Add cold water enough to make it into a firm dough.

4. Flour your hands and divide the dough into pieces about the size of an egg, and roll each piece into a smooth ball, without a crack in it.

5. When the water in the saucepan is quite boiling, drop in the dumplings, and let them boil twenty minutes.

N. B. - They are best boiled with meat-either salt beef or pork.

6. Then take them out of the saucepan, put them on a hot dish, and they are ready for serving.