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Grape Dumplings

Grape dumplings in a serving bowl
Photo by Nico Schinco

Native American people made these with cornmeal dumplings, simmering them with wild grapes such as possum grapes, fox grapes, muscadine, and scuppernongs. These native grapes were harvested at their peak sweetness and cooked into a thick jam. This is a modern adaptation worthy of our Cherokee and Choctaw ancestors.

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