This family recipe for German potato dumplings — an adaptation of kartoffelklösse — is prepared for holidays. It makes about 75 dumplings and can easily be doubled or tripled for a big holiday meal.

I don’t know exactly when my grandparents bought their house in the Rolling Mill Hill section of Wilkes-Barre. But I think it would have been 1940 or 1941, and I’ve heard that my grandfather, after he ...