Does anyone know this Greek Orthodox Butter Substitute recipe?

My dietician says Southerners are hopeless ... here's why (grin):

SMOTHERED CHICKEN
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Soak cut-up chicken in salted ice water

Fry up a mess of bacon.

The only Southern recipe that doesn't begin with "fry up a mess of bacon" is Key Lime Pie.

Drain and reserve the bacon grease ... it can be used as currency in parts of Georgia.

Dip the chicken in beaten egg and canned milk.

Flour it with salt and pepper.

Deep-fry it in lard.

That's right ... L-A-R-D.

Crisco is for lightweights .

In the skillet in which you cooked the bacon, make a blond roux.

If you don't know how to make a roux, you're not marriage material in Louisiana .

Stirring with a fork (wisks are for Yankees), gradually add unsweetened condensed milk until you have a thick cream gravy. Add salt and pepper to taste. Crumbled the bacon and add to the gravy.

Pour the gravy over the chicken and bake covered in a 300 F. oven for about an hour, uncovering it for the last 20 minutes or so.

Serve with collard greens with hot pepper sauce, potato salad or yellow rice, and skillet cornbread or beaten biscuits, with peach cobbler and home-made vanilla ice cream for dessert.

(courtesy of Women's Society of Christian Service cookbook, Mulberry Methodist Church, Mulberry FL, c. 1944) ... I still have Mother's copy