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These are a few recipes I've collected, hope you guys enjoy them as much as I have.


Baked Dumplings

Ingredients:
* 1 cup of flour
* 2 tespoons baking powder
* Pinch of salt
* 2 eggs, lightly beaten
* 1-2 tablespoons milk


Instructions:
* Sift the flour with the baking powder and salt
* Beat in the eggs and enough milk to make a stiff batter
* Drop in small spoonfuls into boiling stew
* Cover and cook for 12-15 minutes.




Turkey Soup with Dumplings

Ingredients:
You can use your turkey leftovers after Thanksgiving dinner or even buy turkey drumsticks which are huge and very cheap. If you have any leftover sliced turkey meat add it after you've boiled the carcass and taken the meat off of the bones.

How to:
* Boil the turkey carcass for about two hours,
* Add salt and freshly ground black pepper.
* Add herbs (your choice), preferably fresh.
* Add some pearl barley after the first hour, just a handful or so.
* Drain the liquid from the carcass and pick the meat off of the bones.
* Now add the sliced meat (if you have some).
* Add chopped carrots, and turnips to liquid.
* Cook for 20 minutes.
* Make dumplings.
* Add them and cook for 30 minutes on stove.
* Add sliced leeks and a handful of frozen peas.

Serve with a loaf of fresh white or brown bread.



Old world Toast

Ingredients:
* 2 eggs
* Pinch of salt & pepper
* 1 tablespoon milk
* 2 slices of bread
* 2 tablespoons oil, butter or lard

Instructions:
* Beat the eggs lightly and season with salt & pepper
* Add the milk
* Soak the bread slices in the mixture
* Heat the oil, butter or lard in a frying pan and when hot add the soaked bread
* Fry until crisp, turning occasionally.




Quick Biscuits Gramma Style

Ingredients:
* 4 cups flour
* 1 cup sour milk

Instructions:
* Put the flour into a bowl and quickly mix in the sour milk
* Knead briefly on a floured surface and pat out into a thick round or square
* Cut into rounds or squares
* Cook on both sides on a hot floured griddle or heavy frying pan until cooked through



Welsh Honey Cakes

Tiessennau Mel (Welsh Honey Cakes)
* 4 oz Honey
* 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
* 4 oz Brown sugar
* 1 Egg
* 1/2 LB Flour
* 1/2 teaspoon Bicarbonate of soda
* 4 oz Butter
* Caster sugar
* A little milk

Sieve together flour, cinnamon and bicarbonate of soda. Cream butter and sugar. Separate the egg yolk from the white. Beat the yolk into sugar and butter, then add the honey, gradually. Stir in the flour with a little milk as required and mix all together lightly.
Whisk the egg white into a stiff froth and fold into mixture. Half fill small patty tins with the mixture; dredge the top of each with caster sugar. Bake in a hot oven (425 degrees)



Granny's Shooshi Dinner

Ingredients:
* 3 Lbs rabbit meat, cut into pieces
* 2 fresh bay leaves
* 3 stems thyme
* 2 whole cloves
* 3 onions, minced
* 1 tablespoon oil
* A few black peppercorns, crushed
* Salt
* Water and red wine
* 1 and half cups diced carrots
* 12 small white onions
* 12 small mushrooms
* 18 small potatoes
* 1 tablespoon butter, softened
* 1 tablespoon flour
* 1 tablespoon minced fresh parsley

Instructions:
Put rabbit, bay leaves, thyme, cloves, minced onion, oil, peppercorns, and salt into a large pot. Pour in sufficient water and wine to cover the ingredients in the pan. Bring to the boil, reduce heat, and simmer gently for 2 hours. Add carrots, white onions, mushrooms, and potatoes and cook, covered, until vegetables are tender, approx 25-30 minutes. Mix the butter with the flour and stir into the stew until the mixture has thickened. Simmer for 5 minutes. Sprinkle with parsley just before serving.



Pecked Bittikanni (Roast Partridge)

Ingredients:
* 2 oven-ready partridges
* 2 slices fat bacon
* Butter, melted for basting

Instructions:
* Preheat oven to 425F
* Tie a slice of bacon across the breast of each bird with cotton string
* Place in a roasting pan and cook for 20-30 minutes
* Baste well with butter during the cooking
* When the birds are cooked to your liking remove the bacon and serve them with gravy.





Lamb Stew

Ingredients:
* 1 pound lamb
* 5 potatoes
* 3/4 pound of fresh string beans
* garlic
* olive oil or lard
* onion
* fresh parsley
* cayenne and crushed pepper, garlic powder
* HOT small peppers
* red and yellow bell peppers (optional)
* tomato paste and fresh tomato

Chop one onion into small pieces. Cut the lamb into little pieces. Stir fry with oil until brown. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes with lid on. Add diced onion and parsley. Cover and simmer for another ten minutes.

Add cut and peeled potatoes and the string beans (just cut the very ends off). Add water as needed, not to let it dry out. Simmer another 15-20 minutes. Add tomato paste for red sauce with one can of water. As needed, stir in garlic powder, salt, cayenne, crushed pepper, small hot peppers and garlic.

Throw in red and green peppers while stirring (optional: add yellow, red, and green bell peppers for color).

Add rice on the side. Serve with fresh french bread.

This is what they are actually called I didnt name these recipes. Also I'd like to say I have met a few gypsy people and they are quite happy with the name. Calling them anything else to them is rude. Enjoy the recipes though.

mainly I use whole milk myself but I dont see why not. Just be careful not to add to much otherwise it turns out lumpy. o.e

Would you change them? I mean- it's like finding a fried chicken recipe somewhere that titles itself "****** Chicken", and then reposting it.


I think- and I could be wrong, that when you post something from a website Gaia expects you to cite it, otherwise it's IP theft. I might be wrong about that though.
I think the real issue is that if this is for Hippies and Witches- I think there's an expectation for social justice- and part of that means not perpetuating racist terms.

Oh and also guys I tried sliced ham instead of bacon fat in the Roast Partridge recipe it turned out alot better and is actually alot more healthy.

I cant find anywhere it says copy written but here is the site.
http://gypsymagicspells.blogspot.com/