How to Serve Chicken

Ingredients

• 1 chicken breast
• Salt
• Pepper
• Lard
• 1 handful of flour
• 1 pint of stock
• Jerusalem artichokes

Directions

1. Wash the chicken breast then dry with a clean cloth
2. Place chicken in tray of salt with water covering the chicken for ten minutes
3. Dry the chicken; then add salt, pepper, and flour to it well
4. Place chicken in pan of hot lard, enough to turn chicken golden brown
5. After, lay it on clean paper towel to absorb excess grease
6. Throw off top grease then put a handful of flour back on chicken
7. Add one pint of stock, then stir until brown
8. After stirring strain the mix
9. Place chicken back in mixture, bring to a simmer slowly until chicken is soft
10. Let pot turn to mush then get cold
11. Cut the chicken before frying it and serving it to others
Also fry Jerusalem artichokes as a side dish, letting them simmer with the fricassee [dish of fried meat with thick sauce]

Source — Cooking in Old Creole Days.
Prepared by Morgan Winstead
Louisiana Anthology
June 10, 2018