This recipe is for chicken-fried steak. It involves seasoning cube steaks with salt and pepper, then dredging them in a mixture of crushed saltine crackers, flour, baking powder and spices. The steaks are dipped in an egg and milk mixture then coated again in the cracker mixture before frying in hot oil until cooked through. A gravy is made by mixing milk and flour in the leftover drippings in the skillet.

1. Chicken-Fried Steak

2. Ingredients 2 ¼ tsp. salt, divided 1 ¾ tsp. black pepper, divided 6 (4 oz.) cube steaks 38 saltine crackers (1 sleeve), crushed 1 ¼ cups flour, divided ½ tsp. baking powder ½ tsp. ground red pepper 4 ¾ cups milk, divided 2 large eggs 3 ½cups peanut oil

3. Sprinkle Salt & Pepper over steaks

4. Combine Cracker Crumbs, flour, baking powder, salt, pepper & red pepper

5. Mix ¾ cup milk and eggs

6. Dredge steaks in cracker mixture, dip in milk mixture then cracker mixture again

7. Heat oil in 12-inch skillet to 360˚

8. Fry steaks...

9. …each side about 4-5 minutes.

10. Keep steaks warm in a 225˚ oven http://www.sxc.hu/photo/276955

11. Carefully drain oil, reserving cooking bits and 1 tbsp. drippings in skillet

12. Mix ¼ cup flour and 4 cups of milk, salt and pepper

13. Pour mixture into reserved drippings in skillet

14. Whisk constantly, 10-12 minutes or until thickened

15. Chicken-Fried Steak