I grew up with English's Chicken and miss it greatly since Bay Country closed. I went to school with one of their grandchildren and have lost track of them. So I would like to know if anybody would have this recipe. If so would they email me or meet me in Salisbury. I know the English Family kept this recipe top secret but I surely like to have it. It would be great to have their chicken at least one more time before I leave this world. I have searched all over the internet and cannot find anything. aperdue52@hotmail.com.
Greatly appreciated
I miss them too.Without googling Englishes I'm assuming that all are gone? What a shame.
ReplyDeleteEven the people who worked there didn't know the recipe. The coating came in waxed cartons from the commissary as did all the baked goods. I can say the coloring was from paprika, not Old Bay like some people think. Find someone who worked in the commissary and you may be able to get some of the ingredients. FWIW, I thought they were supposed to release the recipe last summer after the last restaurant sold?
ReplyDeleteI used to go to the Englishes that was in a trailer on the right as I returned to Salisbury from OC.Near the big cattle farm.Seriously good chicken.To me personally their chicken ranked right up there with Thrashers fries and Fishers pop corn.
ReplyDeleteI remember the chicken trailer with one picnic table, and those rolls. 1961. My parents, grand parents, aunts and uncles would drive down from Glen Burnie for that fantastic chicken.
DeleteNever could understand why anyone would eat it, let alone like it. Tried it at the long closed English's that was in Berlin, it was greasy, hardly any coating on it, just dry skin leaking grease. Another visit at another location, and between the same deep dry fried plain chicken parts and the generic out-of-the-cheap-five-gallon-cans sides, I never went back.
ReplyDeleteYou had a bad day
DeleteWhaaaat? You just don't know good fried chicken!
DeleteStep 1: Go to Sysco
ReplyDeleteStep 2: Buy pre-bagged "chicken""like""meat"
Step 3: Cook
Step 4: Profit
You all have no clue! I knew the gentlemen who came up with the recipe, and yes they were gentlemen! We miss them and the chicken!
ReplyDeleteThe original English Grills made the best chicken! We never went on the boat without a Bucket of Chicken and a dozen sweet potato biscuits!
ReplyDeleteThe secret ingredient! Cheddar Cheese...
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that English's chicken will reappear somewhere, as a featured item at an established local restaurant.
ReplyDelete10:50, you must be from Pennsylvania.
ReplyDeleteNope.
DeleteAsk Waynie Strasberg. He ran English's/Bay Country into the ground. Maybe he knows. Now he runs Wicomico County. Lucky us.
ReplyDeleteThey should have named the place "English's" then, or "Bay Country English" or something. Or just "Bay Country" with English's chicken.
ReplyDeleteThe name Bay Country Meals sounded...unappetizing. Something about the generic and utilitarian sound of the word "meals" in the name, was unappealing.
English's had great chicken, The Red roost did too but they have gone downhill fast. I guess it's Royal farms from now on.
ReplyDeleteI haven't tried it but have heard The Farmer's Wife is a close version of English's
ReplyDeleteThe old englishs chick mobiles had 2 locations on the east side in the 70,s
ReplyDeleteFirst location was at white richardson road and rt 50 on the west bound side.
Then they were at bent pine road and west bound 50.
Cooked hot to order with fresh dinner rolls and plenty of apple jelly.
Royal Farms chicken taste better!
ReplyDeleteone of the secrets of English's chicken was that we cooked it in an Electric open type fryer . about 24 x 24 . over the years we tried other types of fryers but none worked as well. We were always cooking white Chicken, The bosses tried to Work with Perdue but the yellow chicken but we could not cook it as well. I don't know the temp or time we cooked it, but that was also important. Size of the pieces was also important.
ReplyDeleteI agree. The world is just not the same without English's chicken in it. Of course, I spend half of my life dreaming about food that I cannot get.
ReplyDeleteIf anybody finds English’s recipe please send it my way also thanks
ReplyDeleteI would love the recipe for their cakes icing when they had the bakery in South Boulevard.
ReplyDeleteReally good chicken
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