My mother's secret to the special taste of her fried chicken is 3 tablespoons of bacon grease added to the fresh Crisco vegetable shortening. We turn our chicken only once, lowering the temperature after turning because the chicken is already hot through and if you don't lower the heat some the second side will burn instead of finishing cooking. Plain salt and pepper is added to the flour and shaken in a brown paper bag for total coverage. No cornmeal, hot sauce or extra seasonings and you will get the old fashioned fried chicken you may remember.