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Big Love Buttermilk Fried Chicken

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When Heather Earnhardt opened her tiny cafe, The Wandering Goose, in Seattle, she added a little bit of Southern charm and comfort to the city. From her childhood in the South with her close-knit family comes this collection of traditional Southern favorites that makes use of all of the delicious food ingredients available here in the Pacific Northwest. Her specialty is her biscuits – both sweet and savory – as well as traditional Southern fare such as pickles, pies, cakes, grits and this Big Love Buttermilk Fried Chicken. This delicious recipe comes from Heather L. Earnhardt’s Big Food Big Love: Down Home Southern Cooking Full of Heart of Seattle’s Wandering Goose, the World Spice Cookbook Selection for June 2017.

From the Author: “Fried chicken is an emblem of the South and loved the world over: there are as many styles and flavors as there are ways of eating it. Whether it’s served hot over a buttermilk biscuit or eaten cold as a midnight snack standing in front of the refrigerator, fried chicken is good any time of the day or night. And it’s good for you! If your oil is at the correct temperature, the chicken won’t absorb any excess and will come out with a crackling skin and hot, juicy interior. My hope is that you fry enough of this chicken so that there are one or two pieces left for a midnight snack.”

 

From (c)2016 By Heather L. Earnhardt. All rights reserved. Excerpted from Big Food Big Love: Down Home Southern Cooking Full of Heart of Seattle’s Wandering Goose by permission of Sasquatch Books.

Big Food Big Love is the June 2017 selection for the World Spice Cookbook Club. Big Food Big Love is currently available for purchase at our retail store and online.


 2 Comments

  1. patricia notestine says:

    I made this recipe last night and it was so salty we could barely eat it. I’m trying to figure out what I did wrong….any thoughts?

    • Sherrie says:

      It’s probably because of the amount of salt in the dredging mix. In Southern-style flour dredge mixtures, they typically will use a lot of salt, such as in the 1/2 cup in this recipe. I usually prefer to use much less salt then is called for in most recipes, so I would maybe use a tablespoon or so for this amount of dredging mix and, if need be, salt my chicken at the table. Perhaps try that next time. (Heather’s recipe is done using Diamond Kosher Salt. She says that if you’re using a different salt to cut the amount in half, and to preferably used Kosher Salt, and never iodized.) I’ve eaten this chicken, both at the Cookbook Club event and when a bunch of us went to her restaurant for their Fried Chicken Friday dinner. It – and all of the sides – were absolutely delicious. And those biscuits…Oh, my…

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