I would like to report that,routinely making both, Joy of Cooking has recipes for drop-dumplings atop stew and quick baking powder biscuits which are almost identical to both each other and the Bettina recipe. Both have the same ingredient list (a little more butter, a little less milk), and if you are really lazy like me, you didn't roll out the biscuits to begin with: you grabbed a handful of dough, rolled it between your floured hands, and plopped it onto the baking sheet as-is. Or ontop the bubbling chicken-and-barley, as the case may be.

(I put the lid on stove-top stews, so that the dumplings remain soft and spongy on top, but if I wanted a biscuity texture on top, I could easily finish the stew in the oven without a lid and get that result.)