April 10, 2009
April 8, 2009 For nearly a year now, J and I have kept instructions on how to butterfly a chicken close by. It’s always seemed like such an easy ...
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chicken breast halves, skinned and boned |
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bottle Dales steak sauce |
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Marinate the chicken in Dale's sauce in the refrigerator for at least thirty minutes. Remove the chicken from the sauce and cook, covered, on a gas or charcoal grill at the level of medium heat for about ten minutes on each side, basting twice during process with the sauce. |
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The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated fowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, and with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003,according to Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds, Ed. Perrins, Christopher. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, Ltd., 2003. there are more chickens in the world than any other bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, consuming both their meat and their eggs. Conventional wisdom has held that the chicken was domesticated in India, but recent evidence suggests that domestication of the chicken was already under way in Vietnam over 10,000 years ago.Sherman, David M. (2002). ''Tending Animals in the Global Village''. Blackwell Publishing. 46. ISBN 0683180517. From India the domesticated fowl made its way to the Persianized kingdom of Lydia in western Asia Minor, domestic fowl were imported to Greece by the fifth century BC.Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, (Anthea Bell, translator) ''The History of Food'', Ch. 11 "The History of Poultry", revised ed. 2009, p. 306. Fowl had been known in Egypt since the 18th Dynasty, with the "bird that lays every day" having come to Egypt from the land between Syria and Shinar, Babylonia, according to the annals of Tutmose III.Howard Carter, "An Ostracon Depicting a Red Jungle-Fowl (The Earliest Known Drawing of the Domestic Cock)" ''The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology'', 9.1/2 (April 1923), pp. 1-4. The chicken is believed to have descended from both the Red Junglefowl (''Gallus gallus'') and the Grey Junglefowl (''G. sonneratii''), though hybrids of both wild types usually tend to be sterile. Recent genetic work has revealed that the genotype for yellow skin present in the domestic fowl is not present in what is otherwise its closest kin, the Red Junglefowl. It is most likely that the yellow skin trait in domestic birds originated in the Grey Junglefowl.Eriksson J, Larson G, Gunnarsson U, Bed'hom B, Tixier-Boichard M, et al. (2008) ''Identification of the Yellow Skin Gene Reveals a Hybrid Origin of the Domestic Chicken.'' PLoS Genet January 23, 2008 .