Mom's recipe thing

Good lord people, this is all you for true delicious country fried steak or chicken. You are going to do pretty much the same for both. Get a round steak, cut off most of the fat on the edges. Divide into 4 pieces. Get rid of any gristle or fat. If you get lucky and have that round bone leave it. You might want to use that mallet thing and tenderize some. If you're cooking chicken you can cook it with or without the bones or skin. Your choice. Soak your meat in some buttermilk and some salt for at least a couple of hours. This will give flavor and tenderize too. Next get some flour, salt and pepper and mix in a bowl. (Some people just use a bag for this). Take a piece of meat, shake off most of the milk and dredge in the flour. Set on a rack. Continue until you've done each piece. Now do it again. In the mean time have you a good size iron heating with enough lard or crisco to equal at least an inch when melted. When around 350 degrees, put your meat is good and golden brown and done. (That's part of country cooking, you learn how to tell when it's done, you just have to watch it so it don't burn.) Remove from this skillet and drain off some of the grease. Now take another plain skillet and take the rest of the grease and the crumbs and put in that one. (Don't you dare make gravy in your iron skillet) Now take some of the leftover flour mixture and stir it in the skillet to make what you all call a roux. Once it's all cooked, start stirring in regular milk until it looks like enough. I also like to add in some more salt and pepper. You keep stirring back and forth until it starts boiling. Once it starts thicking up, turn the heat off and keep stirring some more until it settles down. Put your meat on a plate, some mashed potatoes and spoon that gravy on and you have true Southern, Country whatever you want to call it. Some fresh green beans and biscuits and you have a meal. So it's your meat, 2 milks, flour, salt, pepper and lard or crisco plus two skillets. That's it. My granny that lived in the hollers of Kentucky that cooked on a wood stove taught me that so how much more Southern, Country can you get. Why do people feel they have to complicate food anymore. Plus if she was cooking chicken she went outside and grabbed a chicken and killed it and cleaned it then.