Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) is one of the most famous fast food chains in the world and their fried chicken recipe is top-secret information.
However, KFC founder Colonel Sanders’ nephew, Joe Ledington, may have recently leaked the famous “11 herbs and spices” recipe.
Or did he?
Source: Joël de Vriend on Unsplash
KFC, however, insists that the recipe shared by Ledington is not authentic.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Ledington shared a family scrapbook which contained the will of Claudia Sanders, Colonel Sanders’ wife.
On the back of the will were the precise measurements of 11 different spices written down in blue ink.
Source: Chicago Tribune
The ingredients are:
While Ledington admitted that he is unclear whether this is the actual recipe, he believes that the most important ingredient is probably white pepper.
“I call that the secret ingredient. Nobody (in the 1950s) knew what white pepper was. Nobody knew how to use it,” he explained.
The Chicago Tribune even decided to recreate the recipe to see if it would taste like the original.
The news outlet confirmed that the flavours were truly spot on.
However, the fast food company later released a statement highlighting that this leaked recipe from Ledington is not authentic.
According to the Daily Mail, KFC says that Colonel Sanders’ original handwritten recipe from 1940 “is locked up in a digital safe that’s encased in two feet of concrete”.
It’s also “monitored 24 hours a day by a video and motion detection surveillance system”.
Well, whether the recipe is real or not, it seems that the leaked recipe for the famous fried chicken still sounds just as delicious as the original.
Perhaps you could try the recipe out for yourself at home and let us know if it truly is finger-lickin’ good.
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Featured image adapted from okalbum on Flickr and Chicago Tribune.
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