What within the purple hell is Chiff Choff?

“You realize, a-chiff, a-choff.” That was my great-grandmother’s response when my mother requested why her signature hen dish was referred to as chiff choff. The way in which my mother tells it, my great-grandmother’s reply was accompanied with a hand flipping motion, seemingly implying that “chiff” and “choff” means both to flip or to pan fry. Although that seems to be unfaithful. Perhaps she was being coy with my mom in an effort to guard the shrouded historical past of this dish. What’s extra doubtless, nevertheless, is that along with talking tough English she was just too busy to be significantly taken with…