Recipes that appear in Idea Alley have not been tested by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Last week I asked for help with a rather sentimental recipe request. To recap, Jennifer Shelley is seeking a recipe for a dish her family calls Hot Springs Chicken. Her parents got the recipe over 75 years ago from a chef while honeymooning in Hot Springs. The hallmark of the dish is its reddish-orange sweet-spicy-tangy sauce. I initially didn't have any luck when I searched the historic archives. But thankfully, Alley Kats are a wise bunch.

Judy White , Kerry Kraus and Cathy Krupka recognized this description as meeting that of a recipe popularized in the 1940s and '50s that used Catalina dressing as a marinade and sauce.

With this new information, I returned to the search.

Specific recipes vary,

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