EASY OVEN-FRIED CHICKEN

           ½ cup flour             ⅛ cup shortening
           1 tsp salt              ⅛ cup butter
           ¼ tsp pepper            2 to 2-½ lbs chicken pieces
           ¼ tsp paprika           

Preheat the oven to 425°. Mix the flour, salt, pepper, and paprika together in a paper sack. Melt the shortening and butter in a shallow baking pan in the oven.

Flour the chicken pieces by shacking one or two pieces at a time (about a half pound). Arrange the floured chicken pieces, skin side down, in the baking pan in a single layer and bake for 45 minutes. Turn skin side up and bake another 15 minutes or so until tender.

Adapted from “Betty Crocker’s New Dinner for Two Cook Book” (1964). Discover more vintage recipes at the Padgett Sunday Supper Club (clubpadgett.com)!