Broiled Chicken

Ingredients

• Prepare chickens by cutting open the back
• place them in a skillet greased with hot lard or butter
• A weight (a flatiron will do)

Method

1. 1

   Prepare chickens by cutting open the back, soak half hour in cold water, then rub with salt, and place them with skin down, in a skillet greased with hot lard or butter.

2. 2

   A weight (a flatiron will do) should be placed on them to make them flat.

3. 3

   Turn often, replacing the weight.

4. 4

   Cook about half hour, if chickens are large; when done pour melted butter and pepper over them and serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Broiled Chicken. — Prepare chickens by cutting open the back, soak half hour in cold water, then rub with salt, and place them with skin down, in a skillet greased with hot lard or but- 46 HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. ter. A weight (a flatiron will do) should be placed on them to make them flat. Turn often, replacing the weight. Cook about half hour

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