Sausage and Greens Soup With Cornmeal Dumplings For Zora Neale Hurston

Name: Sausage and Greens Soup With Cornmeal Dumplings For Zora Neale Hurston
Ingredients: For the dumplings:; 2/3 cup Self Rising Cornmeal (Stivers Best!); 1/3 cup Self Rising Flour; 2 tablespoons butter, room temperature; 1/2 cup buttermilk; 1 teaspoon sugar; For the soup:; 3 tablespoons bacon grease; 1/2 pound DiPaolo's spicy turkey sausage, or other sausage, casing removed; 4 cloves garlic; 1 bay leaf; 1 carrot, chopped; 14 ounces can of chopped tomatoes; 4 cups chicken broth, I used Better Than Bouillion; 2 large handfuls of greens, I used mustard and kale, leafy bits chopped in large pieces