<P> The KFC Original Recipe is the secret mix of ingredients that fast food restaurant chain KFC uses to produce fried chicken . </P> <P> By the late 1930s, Harland Sanders' Corbin, Kentucky gas station was so well known for his fried chicken, that Sanders decided to remove the gas pumps and build a restaurant in its place . While perfecting his secret recipe with 11 herbs and spices, Sanders found that pan frying chicken was too slow, requiring 30 minutes per order . French frying the chicken in a wire basket immersed in deep fat required half the time, but produced dry, unevenly done chicken . In 1939 he found that using a pressure cooker produced tasty, moist chicken in eight or nine minutes . By July 1940 Sanders finalized what came to be known as his Original Recipe . </P> <P> After Sanders began franchising the chicken in the 1950s as Kentucky Fried Chicken, the company shipped the spices already mixed to restaurants to preserve the recipe's secrecy . He admitted to the use of salt and pepper in the recipe, and claimed that the ingredients "stand on everybody's shelf". </P>

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