This is what I grew up on instead of chicken and dumplings.
Chicken bot bie or chicken pot pie (Pennsylvanian Dutch). It is still the meal I ask my mom to make for my birthday. The only thing different in our family from the attached recipe is that we do not put corn in it. I don't remember seeing onion in, either. Or the saffron. According to the article everyone tends to have their own family recipe. My mother used my father's mother's recipe.
(Obviously, I have never cooked it, myself!)
It is the best stuff ever!
http://chezpim.com/cook/pennsylvania-du