South Carolina Chicken Bog - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 baking hen, cut up
2 tsp. salt
3 tsp. black pepper
3 c. rice
1/4 c. diced onion
water to cover chicken
2 lb. hot link sausage (optional)
1/4 c. diced celery (optional)

Preparation

Boil cut-up hen and onion until the meat falls off bone on chicken.
Wash rice and add to chicken, making sure to have about 6 cups water in pot.
Add salt and pepper.
Bring to a good boil, stir a couple of times while boiling.
Cut heat to very low. Place lid on pot and cook for 40 minutes or until the rice is soft.
Serves about 10 to 12.