This oven baked 3-ingredient chicken spectacular is one of those quiet little treasures that used to sit on handwritten cards in metal recipe boxes all across the Midwest. I first saw it in my mother-in-law’s box, dated 1965, written in her neat blue ink with a few splatters from years of Sunday suppers. It’s the kind of recipe a busy farm wife could pull together after church: simple pantry ingredients, no fussy steps, and a smell that fills the whole house.
The chicken bakes up golden and tender under a
