Cooking with Tammy Wynette

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's Chef Jeremy Foy cooked Tammy Wynette's famed chicken-and-dumplings on the September 27, 2010, episode of WSMV's Better Nashville. Wynette's original recipe manuscripts for chicken-and-dumplings, and for pumpkin bread, are shown below for your cooking pleasure. For more of the singer's recipes, view her southern cookbook here.

Cookin' With Tammy: Tammy Wynette Recipes

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Chicken (or Ham)  and Dumplings

Ingredients:

One whole cut up frying chicken or one 2lb. canned ham.

Standard dough or pastry.

Directions:

Place whole cut up chicken into deep sauce pan. Cover with water and cook on medium heat until tender. Salt and pepper to taste. Use standard dough or pastry recipe for dumplings. Roll dough very thin and cut into one inch strips. Slowly drop dough strips into cooked chicken. Make dumplings as thick as desired. This recipe can also be used with ham. Use diced canned ham instead of chicken.

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Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients:

3 ½ cups of flour (self-rising)

1 tsp. nutmeg

1 tsp. cinnamon

4 eggs (beaten)

3 ½ cups of sugar

2 ½ cups mashed pumpkin

1 cup vegetable oil

1 tsp. vanilla

1 cup chopped nuts

Directions:

Mix dry ingredients, blend other ingredients except nuts. Mix alternately and add nuts. Grease 2 bunt pans and fill. Bake approx. 45 min. at 350°.

 

 

 

 

 

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