Southern Fried Chicken

Ingredients

• Chicken, 1
• Bread crumbs, 1/4 cup
• Cream, 1 cup
• Butter, 1 tablespoon
• Parsley, 1 tablespoon
• Flour, 1 tablespoon
• Bacon, 2 slices
• Egg, 1

Method

1. 1

   Joint a tender chicken, dip each piece in beaten egg, then in bread crumbs and fry in bacon fat till well done and light brown.

2. 2

   Take up chicken and keep warm in the oven.

3. 3

   Strain the fat, add to it the butter rubbed smooth with the flour and stir till well blended.

4. 4

   Pour in the cream and stir till smooth and thick.

5. 5

   Add the minced parsley and pour over chicken.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mary Jane's cook book (1916) by Mary Jane, Sophie D. Coe, page 98. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

parsley, 1 tablespoon. Stock. Chop pork and fat fine and add remaining ingredients. Put in a buttered mold, fill up with good thick stock and bake for iy2 hours. When cold turn out of mold and garnish with parsley. 214 MEAT, POULTRY AND ENTREES. MARROW BALLS. Marrow, 1 tablespoon. Pepper, salt and nutmeg. Egg, 1. Soft bread. Melt the marrow and strain through coarse cheese cloth. Beat till creamy then add the egg and beat again. Season and add as much bread as it will moisten. Roll into small balls, poach them in water and place in soup before serving. MARROW BONES. Marrow bones. Dough. Toast. Have the bones cut into 3-inch pieces. Scrape and wash thoroughly, spread a little dough on each end to keep the marrow in, tie each bone in a piece of cheese cloth and boil for 1 hour. Re- move cloth and paste and place each bone on a square of toast. Sprinkle with paprika and serve very hot. Or the bones may be boiled without being cut, the marrow then removed with a spoon and placed on hot toast. OXFORD SAUSAGE MEAT. Lean veal, 1 pound. Nutmeg, 1. Fresh pork, 1 pound. Pepper, 1 teaspoon. Beef suet, 1 pound. Salt, 2 teaspoons. Bread crumbs, y2 pound. Sage leaves. Lemon, y2. Thyme, marjoram and savory. Chop the veal, pork and suet separately as fine as possible, then mix in the crumbs, the peel of the half lemon, shredded fine, the nutmeg grated, seasoning and herbs to taste, all chopped as fine as possible. Mix all thoroughly with the hands and press tight into an earthen ware crock. When wanted, make into flat cakes and fry in good drippings. A poultry dressing may be substituted for the herbs if they are not easy to get. Mrs. C. F. C. MUSTARD SAUCE. Sugar, 1 tablespoon. Salad oil, 3 tablespoons. Vinegar, 2 tablespoons. Mixed mustard, 1 teaspoon. Pepper and salt. Beat all well together, adding ingredients in order given. Re- quires no cooking. MKAT, POULTRY AXD ENTREES. 215 SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN. Chicken, 1. Bread crumbs, 14 cup. Cream, 1 cup. Butter, 1 tablespoon. I'arsley, 1 tablespoon. Flour. 1 tablespoon. Bacon, 2 slices. Egg, 1

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