18th century cooking-fried chicken

[unionrdr]

Found this series on YouTube this morning. recipes from 1700-1800, like baked beans, unleavened corn bread, meat pies, pemmican, lots of interesting things. This one's an English fried chicken from 1736. Marinated, battered & fried.

 

[hercher]

Fascinating. Have you tried it?

 

[lschiavo]

I'm looking for more on YouTube tonight.

 

[unionrdr]

It looks good, going to try it soon with the three malt vinegars I have in the fridge. There are some 7 seasons of recipes on there from them. Even how to make a mud oven! Colonial-style cheese cake...colonial-style French bread & toast...:rockin:

 

[agrazela]

Dude in the video mentions they would have used lard or clarified butter for frying.

I recently took a leftover 5gal bucket of clarified butter home from the food lab to fry up chicken, and it was unearthly good.

 

[unionrdr]

Bacon drippin' is darn good too! Can't use it very often though...