Name: Beer-Battered Fried Chicken
Yield: Makes 4 to 6 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: One 3- to 3½-pound chicken, cut into serving pieces; Vegetable shortening (preferably Crisco), for deep frying; Tabasco sauce to taste; ½ teaspoon salt; ¾ cup all-purpose flour; 6 ounces lager beer

Preparation info

Makes
4 to 6
servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Glory of Southern Cooking

By James Villas

Published 2007

About

Southern cooks have been bantering over fried chicken ever since Mary Randolph proffered the first (and, in many respects, still definitive) recipe in her Virginia House-Wife in the early nineteenth century, one of the latest twists being this tangy version using a slightly fermented beer batter. If an extra-crispy skin and very moist interior is what you’re looking for

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