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from the store-with-Mrs.-Field's-cookie-recipe dept.
The Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain, now a division of Yum! Brands and rebranded KFC, has long used the proprietary nature of its seasoning blend, purportedly containing "eleven herbs and spices," as a selling point.
A Chicago Tribune travel reporter was assigned to visit and write about the Harland Sanders Cafe and Museum. A member of the family of the founder of the chain showed the reporter a deceased aunt's photo album and her will, on the back of which the following recipe had been written:
11 Spices – Mix With 2 Cups White Fl.
1) 2/3 Ts Salt
2) 1/2 Ts Thyme
3) 1/2 Ts Basil
4) 1/3 Ts Origino (sic) [sic]
5) 1 Ts Celery Salt
6) 1 Ts Black Pepper
7) 1 Ts Dried Mustard
8) 4 Ts Paprika
9) 2 Ts Garlic Salt
10) 1 Ts Ground Ginger
11) 3 Ts White Pepper
Reporters prepared some chicken using breading made with the recipe. However, the flavour differed from that of the chicken served at KFC. When MSG was sprinkled on the chicken, the flavour became similar to KFC's chicken. A KFC spokesperson confirmed to the Tribune that the company uses MSG.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @09:39PM
Seconding. I live in a part of the country where fried chicken is like scripture, but to find anyone who makes it well is treading on shaky ground anymore.
My own attempts (even going full southern and soaking it in buttermilk) has proven to be less consistent than going to Lee's (not great, but one of the betters around these parts).
Even fancy restaurants doing the pan-fried chicken haven't quite got the touch.
I'd like to tour some of the better chicken establishments around the country and work out an amalgamation of the One True Fried Chicken.