LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Colonel Sanders’ handwritten recipe for fried chicken was back in its old Kentucky home Tuesday after five months in hiding while KFC upgraded security around its top corporate secret. Nothing went afoul when the recipe was returned from an undisclosed location to KFC’s headquarters late Monday in a lockbox handcuffed to the wrist of a security consultant.
“It was very nerve-racking,” KFC president Roger Eaton said of the recipe’s hiatus from a vault. “I don’t want to be the only president who’s lost the recipe.”
The recipe lays out a mix of 11 herbs and spices that coat the chain’s Original Recipe chicken, including exact amounts for each ingredient. It is written in pencil and signed by Harland Sanders. The Associated Press
