Fried Chicken

Ingredients

• a tender chicken
• one-fourth cup butter
• one-fourth cup bacon fat or lard
• salt
• pepper
• roll in flour or in cornmeal

Method

1. 1

   Dress, clean, and cut up a tender chicken as for fricassee.

2. 2

   Sprinkle with salt and pepper and roll in flour or in cornmeal.

3. 3

   Heat a frying pan very hot.

4. 4

   Put in butter and bacon fat; when hot, put in chicken and brown quickly on all sides.

5. 5

   Reduce heat, cover, and cook until chicken is tender, time required being forty-five minutes to one hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Carolina cookery from Quaker kitchens (1924) by High Point Friends Meeting. Woman's Auxiliary, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FRIED CHICKEN Dress, clean, and cut up a tender chicken as for fricas- see. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and roll in flour or in cornmeal. Heat a frying pan very hot. Put in one-fourth cup butter and one-fourth cup bacon fat or lard

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