Fried Chicken

Ingredients

• Chicken
• Cold water
• Salt
• Pepper
• Flour
• Lard
• 1 cup of cream
• Ground mace
• Parsley

Directions

1. Cut up the chicken and lay in a pan of cold water.
2. Wipe the chicken dry and season it with salt and pepper.
3. Cover the chicken with flour.
4. Fry them in the lard until golden brown.
5. Skim the gravy in which the chickens have been fried.
6. Mix it with a cup of cream.
7. Season with salt, pepper, mace and sprinkle with parsley.

Source — The Creole Cookery Book.
Prepared by Madalyn Bell

Louisiana Anthology

June 3, 2018