Family On A Budget

Need a recipe to use up that leftover Easter or Christmas Ham? Here is a family favorite. I got it from my mom’s friend Judy. Her family loves it too.

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons shortening
1 egg
Milk

1 large chopped Onion
2-3 carrots, chopped
Left over ham. Cubed
Ham Bone
Water
5 Russet potatoes, cut into 1 inch slices

Directions:

Put ham bone in large Dutch Oven pot and fill 3/4 full with water. Bring to a boil, uncovered, cook for 2 1/2 hours, turning bone and pulling off meat as it softens at least every half hour.

After 2 1/2 hours remove bone, gristle and fat, cut up any remaining meat. Add chopped vegetables and ham from the bone as well as extra cubed ham. Cook for 10 minutes.

Mix together flour, salt, baking powder and shortening until crumbly.

Put egg in cup; fill cup to 1/2 cup with milk. Add to dry ingredients. Mix as for pie dough and roll out thin. Cut dough into small squares and add to ham broth/vegetables. Bring broth to boil; reduce heat and cook over low heat until done (about 10 minutes).