Fried Chicken

Ingredients

• Cut chicken up
• salt and pepper
• sift a little flour over it
• Put in cup of cream or milk
• with butter and flour enough to thicken

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour over chicken, season with salt and pepper.

2. 2

   Fry in boiling lard until browned and cooked through, about 15-20 minutes.

3. 3

   Pour off excess lard, leaving gravy.

4. 4

   Add cream or milk with butter and flour to thicken, season, and serve with chicken.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Southern Recipes (1913) by Laura Thornton Knowles, page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FRIED CHICKEN Cut chicken up, sift a little flour over it, salt and pepper. Have lard boiling in fry- ing pan, drop chicken into this, fry until well browned and cooked through, from fifteen to MEATS 19 twenty minutes, according to size of the chicken. Pour off the top of the lard after all the chicken is fried leaving in the pan any gravy of the chicken that might remain. Put in cup of cream or milk with butter and flour enough to thicken

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