Snow Melt

Warchest Wednesday: Southern Fried Chicken

The July 10, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  is
What was your favorite meal as a child? Do you still eat it today, or make it for your own children (if you have them)?
Does eating it/making it bring back any childhood memories?

Succulent pieces of crispy chicken,
Lovingly made from scratch by Grandma Mary.

After Grandpa Frank beheaded a frier,
Grandma dipped the dead chicken in boiling water,
I got the job of plucking its feathers,
While Grandma mixed the flour with the spices,
And then mixed one egg with some milk.

After I finished plucking the frier,
Grandma burned its pen feather off
Over the burner of a gas stove;
Next she placed an iron skillet on the burner
And put oil or lard into the skillet.

Grandma cut up bird and removed its innards,
Then she washed the pieces under running water,
Now she was ready to dip the pieces in the batter
Before placing them in the hot skillet.

Grandma dipped the piece in the milk-egg mixture
Next she rolled them in the flour-spice mix
And, one-piece-at-a-time she put them in
The iron skillet to fry to a crisp golden brown.

Do I still eat Southern Fried Chicken today? Yes, but I don't make it from scratch. The closest I come to this process is to purchase a chicken from the grocery meat department already cut up and a package of premixed flour and spice mixture. Normally, I go to a fast food chicken place or a restaurant for my Southern Fried Chicken. When my mother was alive it was easier and less messy to purchase the chicken this way. Now that I am the only one in the house, I have fewer leftovers when I buy a meal this way.

Quote of the Day: "I love the smell of fried chicken." - Giancarlo Esposito