Southern Fried Chicken
Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.
Egg-milk and crumb-coated deep-fry recipe
Plastic Recipe Box handwritten card
Ingredients
- Chicken; flour; salt; pepper; eggs; milk; crumbs; shortening
Directions
- Wash Chicken - drain slightly and roll at once in flour seasoned with salt + pepper.
- Dip in combined eggs and milk and roll in crumbs.
- Shake off excess crumbs. Heat shortening + fry. Drain
Timing: 13-15 min.
Temperature: for deep fry 385°
Equipment: draining vessel or rack; flour-coating dish; egg-and-milk bowl; crumb-coating dish; mixing utensil; deep fryer or deep heavy pot; frying thermometer; draining rack or absorbent paper
Wesson Oil flour-coated shallow-fry recipe
Decorative Recipe Tin printed clipping
Yield: 4 to 5 servings.
Ingredients
- 1 2- to 3-pound frying chicken
- ⅔ cup flour
- 1½ teaspoons salt
- ⅛ teaspoon pepper
- Wesson Oil to depth of 1 to 1½ inches in skillet
Directions
- Cut chicken into serving pieces.
- Place a few pieces in paper bag with flour and seasoning.
- Shake to flour well, remove.
- Repeat until all chicken is coated.
- Heat Wesson Oil moderately hot in heavy skillet.
- Place chicken in hot fat, thicker pieces near center.
- Cover and cook 10 to 15 minutes.
- When golden brown, turn, reduce heat.
- Finish cooking without lid.
- Drain on absorbent paper.
Timing: 10 to 15 minutes
Temperature: moderately hot; reduce heat
Equipment: paper bag; heavy skillet; lid; absorbent paper
Compare the cards
Coating system
- Decorative Recipe Tin printed clipping
- Shake chicken in seasoned flour only.
- Plastic Recipe Box handwritten card
- Seasoned flour, then combined eggs and milk, then crumbs.
Frying fat, depth, heat, and sequence
- Decorative Recipe Tin printed clipping
- Wesson Oil 1 to 1 1/2 inches deep, moderately hot; cover 10 to 15 minutes, turn, reduce heat, finish uncovered.
- Plastic Recipe Box handwritten card
- Heat shortening and deep fry at 385 degrees for 13 to 15 minutes, then drain.
Ingredient quantities and yield
- Decorative Recipe Tin printed clipping
- Measured chicken, flour, salt, pepper, and oil depth; yields 4 to 5 servings.
- Plastic Recipe Box handwritten card
- Ingredients are named without quantities and no yield is stated.
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