Mix the flour and salt (if you are adding salt) with enough water to make a stiff dough.

Separate into very small pieces and make round flat dumplings

Place the chicken in a large soup pot along with the pimento (allspice), onion, scallion, garlic, thyme, corn, salt and cover about an inch with boiling water let it cook for 10 minutes.

Add the pumpkin, carrot, chocho, yellow yam and the dumplings. Adding enough boiling water to cover the foods in the pot.

Stir in the soup mix and add the scotch bonnet pepper. Do not cut the pepper, add it whole.

Cover the pot and let it cook for 30-55 minutes. Stir occasionally, be careful not to bust the pepper. One the pot starts to bubble, turn the heat down.

One the food is cooked and the soup take colour, taste the pot if you need more salt. You may want to remove the pepper at this time.