For the ultimate comfort food, dish up dumplings Published: Mar. 03, 2009, 4:05 a.m.

To cook bread dumplings in the traditional way, mix cubes of stale bread with flour, warm milk, eggs, active dry yeast, and salt until you've got a well-formed dough, rest it for 20 minutes, and ...

Bread dumplings, or semmelknödel (meaning “kneaded bread rolls”), make a wonderfully hearty and comforting meatless main dish, you can stuff them with diced meat or serve them alongside a roast.

In an instant, a dozen dumplings are in the tray, then two dozen, three, and four. The dumpling team will make around 1,000 — both the classic crimped crescents and the purse-like soup dumplings ...