Oven-Baked 3-Ingredient Church Supper Chicken

My mother-in-law made this for every potluck from 1975 to 2010. Only three ingredients, and people still ask for the recipe.

This is the kind of dish that showed up on every church-basement buffet table from the mid-1970s clear into the 2000s, usually in a well-worn glass baking dish with somebody’s name scratched on the bottom. My mother-in-law called it her “potluck chicken,” and I don’t think she ever came home with leftovers.

It’s only three ingredients—nothing fancy at all—but the way the sauce bakes down around the chicken creates