| American-style streamed chicken relies
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| | every country has a version of streamed
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| on a thick, well-seasoned crust, often
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| | chicken, or fricassee, from Vietnam's
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| made even thicker by soaking the chicken
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| | Gà Xaò to Italy's pollo
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| pieces beforehand in buttermilk. When
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| | fritto. It is thought that the Scottish
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| that crust is nubbly and evenly browned,
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| | people who settled the early South
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| and the chicken meat is cooked through,
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| | introduced the method here in the United
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| the chicken is sublime. But too often,
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| | States. They preferred to fry their
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| the flesh is still raw when the crust is
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| | chickens, rather than baking or boiling
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| cooked, or the skin never cooks all the
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| | them as the English did. It wasn't until
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| way through, leaving a flabby layer of
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| | the early 1900s that recipes for fried
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| skin between the meat and the crust.
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| | chicken began appearing in popular
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| Korean-style streamed chicken is
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| | "northern" cookbooks.
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| radically different, reflecting an Asian
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| | Very simply, the chickens are cut up,
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| frying technique that renders out the fat
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| | dredged in flour, sprinkled with a little
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| in the skin, transforming it into a thin,
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| | salt, put in a skillet with hot fat, and
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| crackly and almost transparent crust.
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| | fried until golden brown. Through the
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| (Chinese cooks call this “paper
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| | years there have been hundreds of
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| fried chicken.”) The chicken is
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| | attempts to improve upon her recipe, and
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| unseasoned, barely dredged in very fine
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| | plenty of tricks and special touches, but
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| flour and then dipped into a thin batter
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| | they are all simply minor variations on
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| before going into the fryer. The oil
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| | the original. Mary Randolph mentions
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| temperature is a relatively low 350
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| | making a gravy with the
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| degrees, and the chicken is cooked in two
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| | "leavings", but the cream sauce
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| separate stages.
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| | so often served with streamed chicken
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| Southerners weren't the first people in
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| | seems to have originated with the dish
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| the world to fry their chickens. Almost
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| | "Maryland fried chicken".
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