On Saturday, December 7, 2013 6:58:42 PM UTC-7, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 20:14:58 -0500, jmcquown >
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> >On 12/7/2013 11:44 AM, wrote:
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> >> On Friday, December 6, 2013 1:22:39 PM UTC-8, jmcquown wrote:
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> >>> I had to chuckle. He said, "I'm a black man. Been around fried chicken
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> >>> all my life. I've *never* tasted fried chicken as good as I got in
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> >>> I googled for some recipes for Amish fried chicken. Apparently soaking
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> >>> the chicken pieces in buttermilk is the key. I've heard about this for
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> >>> Some might say buttermilk is a "southern thing". <shrug> My father
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> >>> (born in and mostly raised in Pennsylvania or western Ohio, in Penna
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> >>> adult life in the South, not so much.
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> >> Some of the best fried chicken I have ever had was in Austria, where the
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> >> chicken was raised on my relatives' small farms. Other memorable fried
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> >> chicken dinners were in the US, where the chickens were raised on my
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> >> wife's relatives' small farms. I'm going to guess that the quality of the
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> >> Do the Amish deep-fry? In general, Germanic chicken fryers shallow fry, to
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> >> avoid wasting expensive fats.
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> >I have no idea if the Amish deep fry. I found it interesting this
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> >elderly Southern gent told me about how great the fried chicken is in
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> I've been through Amish country several times and have patronized
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> several of their eateries... truth is it's all a myth, their food is
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> awful, all of it. Shoofly pie is disgusting. The Amish can't cook a
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> lick and all have TIAD.

The Mennonites that I know are all excellent cooks...you must have
hit a bad day or a bad bunch of Amish.
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