Chickens with dressing, &c.
1838. So invariably are poultry and bacon visitants at an Illinois table, that the story may be true, that the first inquiry made of the guest by the village landlord is the following: “Well, stran-ger, what’ll ye take: wheat-bread and chicken fixens, or corn-bread and common doins?” by the latter expressive and elegant soubriquet being signified bacon.—E. Flagg, ‘The Far West,’ ii. 72 (N.Y.).
1845. Our traveller was set down at the tavern, and forgot his surprise at the diminutive area of the Texan capital, over a good supper of “corn-dodgers” and “chicken-fixins.”—‘The Cincinnati Miscellany,’ i. 164.
1847. Well, it was a nice weddin—sich ice cakes and minicles and rasins and oringis and hams, flour doins and chicken fixins, and four oncommon fattest big goblers rosted I ever seed.—T. B. Thorpe, ‘The Big Bear of Arkansas: Billy Warwick’s Courtship and Wedding,’ p. 104 (Phila.).
1847. If you want extra doin’s and chicken-fixin’s, you can have ’em for three bits.—Knick. Mag., xxix. 534 (June).
1847. The remainder of the table was filled up with some warmed-up tough old hen, called chicken fixings.—Rubio, ‘Rambles,’ p. 19 (Bartlett).
1848. The back-woods-man [must have] his ‘chicken-fixins’’ and ‘shanty-cake.’—Knick. Mag., xxxi. 223 (March).
1859. Tell Sal to knock over a chicken or two, and get out some flour, and have some flour-doin’s and chicken-fixin’s for the stranger.—Id., liii. 317 (March).
