Our mission: find out if 11 ingredients handwritten on a piece of paper could be the secret blend of 11 herbs and spices that go into Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Original Recipe – a closely guarded formula that remains one of the world’s biggest culinary mysteries. It sent a reporter to visit the Harland Sanders Café and Museum in Kentucky for what started out as a standard travel piece, but ended with a fried-chicken recipe containing “11 spices” and utter disbelief.
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The note lists 11 herbs and spices – just like the legendary blend. When the writer met with the colonel’s nephew Joe Ledington, who innocently flipped through an old family scrapbook without stopping to think “hm, could there be a coveted family secret hidden in these pages?” According to the Chicago Tribune, the recipe includes two cups of flour, 2/3 tablespoons of salt, 1/2 tablespoon of thyme, 1/2 tablespoon of basil, 1/3 tablespoon of oregano, 1 tablespoon of celery salt, 1 tablespoon of black pepper, 1 tablespoon of dried mustard, 4 tablespoons of paprika, 2 tablespoons of garlic salt, 1 tablespoon of ground ginger and 3 tablespoons of white pepper.
KFC takes the secrecy of the recipe very seriously, insisting that it is still safe in a vault and transported in an armored truck. “Nobody knew how to use it” in the 1950s, he said. He told the Tribune that the recipe “could be” legitimate but that he couldn’t say “for sure”. We’ve got to keep it a secret from those imitators creating KFC copycat recipes that just don’t come close to the real deal.
He said the recipe was jotted down on the back of Mrs Sanders’ will. However, Jones says Ledington eventually began to backtrack from his confidence in the recipe.
One: Joe Ledington let the secret out.
This image provided by KFC shows the company’s new boneless chicken.
But more important, did it taste like the Colonel’s secret blend of herbs and spices? Those who want to smell like fried chicken while being protected from sun rays have to go to ExtraCrispySunscreen.com.
“In the 1940’s, Colonel Sanders developed the original recipe chicken to be sold at his gas station diner”.
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