Broiling Chicken

Ingredients

• Chicken
• Salt
• Pepper
• Sweet oil

Directions

1. Wash chicken thoroughly. 
2. Dry carefully the chicken with a cloth.
3. Salt and pepper the chicken 2 or 3 hours before cooking and put in refrigerator.
4. Add sweet oil on the chicken before broiling it over a slow fire.
5. Occasionally baste chicken with water while broiling.

Source — Cooking in Old Creole Days
Prepared by Caleb Reese
Louisiana Anthology
February 13, 2020