Turned out great. I have made it twice, once with rutabaga and once with butternut squash of course the butternut gives it a sweeter taste but still great. I also added a 1/2tsp more salt to dumplins

This is almost exactly the way I have made soup for 25+ years. If you simmer the carcass and veggies long enough, with a little sea salt, no boullion cubes are needed for flavour. I have never thickened my broth with milk/flour but decided to give it a try. I had thick lumps of flour in my broth, so I ended up pouring it through a sieve. Like many others I used potatoes instead of rutabaga and egg noodles instead of dumplings.

Thanks so much for sharing this! It was really good. Froze very well too!

I made this as per the instructions, however, I only had wheat bread...but the dumplings still turned out really good. I may add more to the soup next time, as I felt it needed more seasoning, but overall a good hearty recipe

This soup turned out great. I already had turkey stock so I skipped to the second part. I only had wheat bread & used that instead of white bread for the dumplings - they turned out GREAT! It was my husband's favorite part. The dumplings do need to cook a bit longer(depending on the size)- I'll plan for that next time. Overall a great recipe.

Loved this recipe. Will use every year with leftover thanksgiving turkey. I ommited the rutabaga. These were absolutely the best dumplings ever.

My family and I loved this. It was very easy and the dumplings were much better than expected. This recipe also works well with chicken and the dumplings are good in other dishes that have dumplings.

Our Thanksgiving turkey was a little overcooked this year so I thought this recipe would be perfect to bring a little moisture to the meat. I used 8 cups of organic chicken broth (msg free!) instead of the bouillon and reduced the water to 4 cups. I added a little extra celery & onion to the broth while it was cooking. My local grocery was out of rutabaga so I substituted 2 golden potatoes. 12 min. was perfect for the dumplings.. thou I imagine it would depend on how big you make them. Mine were a little smaller than a golf ball but grew to twice that big in the pot. I also threw in a half cup of wild rice to the mix which was wonderful, but make sure to add more water or broth to the pot if you do.

Was really good! It made a lot and I froze half of it for a future dinner. Even my picky children liked it!

Delicious..even the skeptics in the family, once they tasted it, enjoyed and went back for seconds. One bit of advice - the flour/milk mixture NEEDS to be strained while adding it to the stock...otherwise, you'll have pasty lumps to explain..giggle...(learned from experience)!

This soup was sooooo good. I too used potatoes instead of rutabaga and egg noodles instead of the dumplings. Be careful not to let it simmer too long like I did, otherwise the noodles will suck up all of the liquid. Even with the reduced amount of soup, it turned out great!

What a fantastic recipe.My family loved it and I have very picky children. I didn't try the dumplings and I substituted the rutabaga for potato. We used a free range fresh turkey and there was no fat or greasey texture like with some soups. It was awesome!

This stuff was great. I also used potato in place of rutabaga (because it was what I had on hand) and I did't have time to try the dumplings. But altogether it was very good. Thanks!

This was the best recipe for turkey soup I have ever come across, it was just delicous. I followed the directions exactly with exception to the addition of potatoes and I removed the rutabaga. I did make the parsley dumplings but both DH and I didn't really care for them, they are very gummy and heavy in texture and there isn't a lot of flavour. I don't believe I will ever use another turkey soup recipe, but I will likely not make the dumplings again. **EDIT** I just wanted to add that this soup is even better the next day and the dumplings, while still a little on the heavy side, taste MUCH better!

the dumplings were hard and rubbery. But the soup itself was fantastic. I need to find a good dumpling recipe

Great soup for leftover turkey. I didn't make the dumplings and omitted the rutabaga (whatever that is??) I used more bouillon probably 6 cubes or so. Came out really great!!Freezes great too!

This soup was delicious!!!! I made it as is with the exception of using half a rutabaga because I never ate one before. They're delicious. My husband didn't like the rutabaga but he's like a child...I think his tooth touched it and then he declared that he didn't like it. He did like the soup (doesn't like dumplings either, but that's okay). I put in fine egg noodles but DH thought it needed bigger noodles...I disagree but that's not important. Anyway, great soup and fattening but I'll just make it once a year after Thanksgiving. Thanks for the recipe!!