Szilvas Gomboc

Description

Plum dumplings

Ingredients

• 2½ dozen free stone Italian plums, washed, split, pit removed
• 4 or 5 medium-sized potatoes
• 1 egg beaten
• 4 cups of flour (unsifted)
• 1 tsp salt
• buttered bread crumbs
• sugar
• cinnamon

Procedures

1. Peel potatoes and cook in salted water till soft.
2. Drain and peel.
3. Mash potatoes and add warm to sifted flour and salt on a kneading surface.
4. Make a well and add egg and knead gently till all is blended.
5. On a clean floured surface, roll dough out to ½ inch thick.
6. Cut dough into 4 inch squares and put a plum into center of each square.
7. Place ½ tsp sugar and a sprinkle of cinnamon in the hole of the plum.
8. Fold corners to the middle and roll the dumpling in your hands till round.
9. Cook a few dumplings at a time in salted water for about 10 minutes.
10. Remove with a slotted spoon.
11. Place in a pan in which bread crumbs have been toasted in butter (one cup crumbs to ¼ cup butter) and mixed with ½ cup of sugar and 2 tsp cinnamon.
12. Keep warm.
13. When all the dumplings have been cooked and are in the pan, gently spoon the bread crumbs, butter, sugar and cinnamon mix over all.