Fried Chicken

Ingredients

• Cut off the wings and legs
• cut breast in two
• also back
• sprinkle salt over it
• dip in flour on both sides
• Have ready in frying pan some hot lard
• half cup milk may be added

Method

1. 1

   Cut off the wings and legs, cut breast in two and also back.

2. 2

   Wash well and throw into weak salt water, to extract the blood.

3. 3

   Let it remain half hour or more.

4. 4

   Drain off water and dry with clean towel; half hour before dinner lay on a dish, sprinkle salt over it and dip in flour on both sides.

5. 5

   Have ready in frying pan some hot lard, in which lay each piece.

6. 6

   Cover closely and fry brown on one side, then turn each piece.

7. 7

   Do not put on the hottest part of the stove as you want it to cook all the way through and not scorch.

8. 8

   After taking out pieces as they are brown, make the gravy by sprinkling sifted flour in the frying pan, allowing it to brown before hot water is added; stir quickly; half cup milk may be added.

9. 9

   Pour into the dish, but not over the chicken.

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.

Fried Chicken. — Cut off the wings and legs, cut breast in two and also back. Wash well and throw into weak salt water, to extract the blood. Let it remain half hour or more. Drain HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. 45 off water and dry with clean towel; half hour before dinner lay on a dish, sprinkle salt over it and dip in flonr on both sides. Have ready in frying pan some hot lard, in which lay each piece. Cover closely and fry brown on one side, then turn each piece. Do not put on the hottest part of the stove as you want it to cook all the way through and not scorch. After taking out pieces as they are brown, make the gravy by sprinkling sifted flour in the frying pan, allowing it to brown before hot water is added ; stir quickly ; half cup milk may be added

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