Hi Maisie and Leonard and everyone else who would like to be adventurous. I can make a good dumplin' as shown by my mother. No real recipe but I know how it tastes "raw" having scraped the bowl many a time. If anyone wants to try it making a dumpling there are many recipes on the Internet. Below is another tip as well as the important one of Leonards that you must dust the cloth with flour. That's what gave it the lovely "skin" when it"s finished in front of the fire. Next tip when the mixture is in the cloth you draw it up as tight as you can then bring your hands up an inch or two to ease the tightness before you tie the string. This gives it room to expand a bit. Here in Australia we can buy Tandaco Suet Mix in the supermarkets. My mother used this after she came to Australia.. A couple of years ago my brother and I were making a dumpling. I remarked to my sister in law that we were finished. I meant it was ready to go into the boiler. She thought it was done never having made one herself. I told her jokingly that it was the miracle of the microwave. Months later I Googled "Microwave Clootie Dumpling" and here is one of the links. http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/8576/microwave-clootie-dumpling.aspx The result is not 100% as wonderful as a traditional dumpling but it's very good and ready from start to finish in quarter of an hour. Doesn't use suet. No butter does best with margarine. Good luck Ella Ross > Hi' Maisie, > nae wunner your dumplin' turned oot soggy and hard tae > eat, ye forgot tae floor the cloot afore ye couped the mix ontae it. > > Len. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message