Secret Recipes

Civil War Chicken

recipe box
  • 1 whole fryer or favorite chicken pieces
  • pepper, to taste
  • 6 slices salt meat
  • 3 Tbsp flour

Split chicken down the back and place in iron skillet with 1 inch water. Pepper to taste. Place thinly sliced salt meat evenly onto chicken pieces. Cover tightly and bake 3 hours at 250° F. Thicken gravy with flour paste. Good with rice.

NOTE: Due to the shortage of salt during the war, Southerners were compelled to use salted meat for their food.

Servings:
6