Whois & Analysis for mastgeneralstore.com

The Mast General Store, located in Historic Valle Crucis, is recognized by the National Register of Historic Places as one of the best remaining examples of an old country general store.

It is still the center of the community housing the post office (Valle Crucis, NC 28691) and offering coffee for 5¢ on the honor system.

There is even a large wood stove you can sit around on cold days swapping stories or playing a game of checkers.

It remains true to the old-time general store from the 19th century by offering items that its neighbors might need, as well as products of interest to travelers and other visitors.

Today there are nine locations, including the Original Store and Annex, both located in Valle Crucis, North Carolina.

The store sells commodities, such as old-time hearth and home goods, outdoor clothing and gear, footwear, work clothes, old-fashioned wind-up toys, regional books and music, honey, and more than 500 varieties of old-fashioned candy.

Fried chicken (also referred to as Southern fried chicken for the variant in the United States) is a dish consisting of chicken pieces usually from broiler chickens which have been floured or battered and then pan-fried, deep fried, or pressure fried.

The breading adds a crisp coating or crust to the exterior.

What separates fried chicken from other fried forms of chicken is that generally the chicken is cut at the joints, and the bones and skin are left intact.

Crisp well-seasoned skin, rendered of excess fat, is a hallmark of well made fried chicken.

Toffee is a confection made by caramelizing sugar or molasses (creating inverted sugar) along with butter, and occasionally flour.

The mixture is heated until its temperature reaches the hard crack stage of.

While being prepared, toffee is sometimes mixed with nuts or raisins.