Fried Chicken, Swiss Style

Ingredients

• Cook chicken
• salt
• pepper
• onion juice
• 1 cup flour
• as much milk as is needed
• 2 eggs
• ½ cup brandy

Method

1. 1

   Cook chicken in salted water till it is fairly tender.

2. 2

   Take up, let get cool, and cut into neat pieces for frying.

3. 3

   Sprinkle these pieces with salt, pepper, and onion juice, then moisten them well with melted Crisco.

4. 4

   Let them stand 1 or 2 hours to absorb flavoring of dressing, then dip in batter and drop into hot Crisco to cook till brown.

5. 5

   This batter make of 1 cup flour, as much milk as is needed to have it stiff, 2 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, and ½ cup brandy.

6. 6

   This batter will be better for standing, after it is mixed, for 1 hour.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 132. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fried Chicken, Swiss Style Sweet Corn Croquettes Broiled Tomatoes Crab Salad Crackers Cheese Coffee *Fried Chicken, Swiss Style—Cook chicken in salted water till it is fairly tender. Take up, let get cool, and cut into neat pieces for frying. Sprinkle these pieces with salt, pepper, and onion juice, then moisten them well with melted Crisco. Let them stand 1 or 2 hours to absorb flavoring of dressing, then dip in batter and drop into hot Crisco to cook till brown. This batter make of 1 cup flour, as much milk as is needed to have it stiff, 2 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, and % cup brandy.

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