Plum Dumplings - Blommeboller

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 3 lbs potatoes
• 5 cups flour
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 pinch salt
• 4 tablespoons melted butter
• 2 lbs plums
• sugar cube
• 3/4 cup breadcrumbs
• 3 tablespoons melted butter
• sugar
• cinnamon

Recipe

• 1 cook and peel the potatoes.
• 2 mash in a large bowl.
• 3 add the flour, sugar, eggs, salt and melted butter and mix well to make a dough.
• 4 roll out quite thin and cut into rounds the diameter of a teacup.
• 5 remove pits from the plums and fill each cavity with a sugar cube.
• 6 place 1 filled plum in each round of dough and pinch edges together.
• 7 cook in lightly salted boiling water about 10 minutes.
• 8 while the dumplings are cooking, mix the bread crumbs with the melted butter.
• 9 when dumplings are cooked, drain and roll in bread-crumb mixture and then in sugar and cinnamon.
• 10 these are a delicious accompaniment to either roast beef or roast lamb.