1 lg. fryer or baking chicken
1 stick butter
Homemade or canned biscuit dough
Salt and pepper to taste

Water to cover bottom of 13 x 9 inch pan or Pyrex dish. Cut chicken into parts as frying chicken. Place in the bottom of the pan. Salt and pepper to taste. Slice butter into pats and put around on chicken parts. (Save a few pats to go over top of dumplings.) Put enough water in pan to make 1 inch deep.

Roll out dough into thin dumplings. Cut into strips and lace over and under chicken pieces making it criss crossed as with cobbler. Place uncovered in 400 degree oven and cook for about an hour. About every 15 minutes take a tablespoon and baste liquid over dumplings. Dumplings that are on top will be crisp like pastry and dumplings that are under chicken will tend to thicken liquid on bottom of pan. This is yummy!