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Title: Crisco's Super-Crisp Country Fried Chicken
Categories: Chicken
Yield: 1 Servings

1/2 c Milk
1 Egg
1 c Flour
2 ts Garlic salt OR garlic powder
2 ts Monosodium glutamate; (MSG)
-option
1 ts Paprika
1 ts Black pepper*
1/4 ts Poultry seasoning*
1 Frying chicken (2 1/2 to 3
-pounds); cut up OR use
-chicken pieces
Crisco for frying

Blend milk and egg. Combine flour and seasonings in plastic or paper bag.
Shake chicken in the seasoned flour. Dip chicken pieces in milk-egg
mixture. Shake chicken a second time in seasoning mixture to coat
thoroughly and evenly. Shallow or deep fry in hot crisco.

TO SHALLOW FRY: Melt crisco in skillet to about 1/2 to 1 inch deep and heat
to 365 F. Brown chichen on all sides. Reduce heat (275 F) and continue
cooking until chicken is tender, about 30 to 40 minutes. Do not cover. Turn
chicken several times during cooking. drain on paper towels.

TO DEEP FRY: Prepare as above and cook in deep crisco heated to 365 F. for
15 to 18 minutes. Drain on paper towels.

*FOR EXTRA SPICY CHICKEN: increase black pepper to 2 teaspoons and poultry
seasoning to 1/2 teaspoon.
Posted to TNT Recipes Digest by Cody Jones on Mar 5, 1998