LAURA LEE ALICE
COOKS
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Whether you're preparing food for two or twenty, this is THE simplest recipe for
baked chicken breasts. I cook my chicken this way several times a month. I use it
not just for baked chicken but for chicken salad or any recipes that require cooked
chicken.
Tips for the Best Baked Chicken
• Buy chicken breasts totally covered with skin. Mine in the photos did not have a lot but were still moist.
• If baking more than two breasts, allow for extra baking time.
• Set the chicken out of the fridge 30 minutes before baking.
• Chicken cooked with the bone and skin have more flavor.
• By salting the skin a few hours ahead of baking makes for a crispier skin.
• I do not cover the chicken before placing it in the fridge.
Recipes are like stories; they can change from person to person. Everyone has their idea of how a recipe should be, even
though it may have changed from the original. We will never know the true author of the original recipe, regardless of
what some may say. That's why I go back and look through the oldest cookbooks that I can find. Sometimes it's not the
recipe in the books that I find, but the tiny pieces of handwritten recipes and newspaper articles that are stuck within
the pages. That's where the real story is, finding those simple Southern recipes. -Mac