Had two ham bone with a fare amount of meat left on and some stock from smoking a butt I cured and smoked. Decided it had been a while since I had made ham pot pie. (not as good as Womans growing up) So here is what we did.
Tossed the bones in the 8 quart instant pot covered with water, for about 40 minutes. Took them out and took the meat off and kind of shredded it, dumped the left over strained stock in the turkey fryer pot, also added about 1.5 gallon of water and some ham base from Gordons food.To that I added some chopped onion and garlic.
For the dough I made it in 2 batches. Each batch was.
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder (not sure this did anything)
3/4 cup of milk (could probably use water)
2 tablespoons olive oil
If you have an egg noodle recipe you could use it and just roll and cut as below.
Mix together and add milk or flour as needed to get a formable dough. I ended up needing more milk, I kneaded it a bit to get it all together and then left on the table and covered with a bowl for about 15 minutes.
Divided in to 4 pieces to make rolling it easier. flour the board well and roll out to 1/4 inch or slightly less. Cut with the pizza cutter and then laid on a rack to dry some, you could just add right to the pot of boiling ham broth if you are making smaller amount.
After all the dough was rolled and cut, I left them dry a bit while I peeled and cubed some potatoes, I had youkon golds here so that is what I used. You can use your own judgement on the amount of potatoes you choose to add, I assume they were added back in the day to help control the salt flavor in the end product. Growing up there were cooked dried big lima beans that I would pick out. These are not a part of my recipe. But feel free toadd if you like them.
Add the dough to the boiling broth and stir as you are adding at times to keep them from sticking together, once all in boil for a while, time will really depend on how thick your dough is. after the dough was getting close I added the potatoes and the shredded ham and cooked for for another 10 minutes then just covered and left sit. If I was not making this big of an amount I would have left it for about 30 minutes before eating.
This was a large amount, ended up filling the roaster as you can see, we had this for a birthday party, I made it the day before because like most things like this it is better the next day.
Should have taken another picture of it on the plate but I didn't do that.
everyone must have liked it because they all took containers of it home, very little left in the fridge tonight.
