[rec.food.recipes] CHICKEN: Southern Fried Chicken

maughan@sp67.csrd.uiuc.edu (Peter Maughan) (11/10/90)

My wife is from the south and here is the recipe that she uses 

	first you need to cut the chicken up and wash it.  the coating
is next. add one cup of flour with one tsp. of salt and one Tbsp of
paprika. Coat the chicken lightly with this.

	To fry the chicken you should use an electric skillet. set the
temperature at about 275 and add some drippings(enough to have about
1/4" in the bottom)to the warming skillet. Drippings are bacon and
chicken grease that are left over from other meals. If you don't have
any now's the time to start. You can use Crisco. fry the chicken
(covered)  with out turning it over for about  one half hour. Turn the
temperature up to 325 and leave chicken for about 10 more minutes. Now
you can turn the chicken over and up the temperature to 375 and cook
for about 15 minutes or until golden brown. Put on a platter of paper
towels for about 5 minutes and it's then ready to eat.

enjoy...................