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January 13, 2003
America's Top Brand Name Recipes Revealed!
The King of Recipe Rip-Offs is Back Divulging Everything from Girl Scout® Thin Mints™ to KFC® Extra Crispy™ Chicken
CHICAGO, IL - Todd Wilbur, culinary guru and author, has been sleuthing for kitchen secrets for more than 15 years in an attempt to copy favorite brand name foods at home. Wilbur isn't afraid to rob corporate America's recipe box to create pop-culture knock-off formulas. In fact, he has honed his clones to perfection in his latest book, Even More Top Secret Recipes: More Amazing Kitchen Clones of America's Favorite Brand-Name Foods. This Plume Publishing original, priced at $13.00, will be available in bookstores nationwide and online beginning January 2003.
The bestselling author of six previous Top Secret books, Wilbur's trademark blueprint drawings and simple recipes demonstrate how easy it is to recreate your favorite brand names at home -- without spending a lot of dough. Over the years, this former television investigative reporter has resorted to spy tactics, carted home leftovers, and recruited family and friends to taste-test recipes. In fact, Wilbur has found the following to be the most sought-after of all of his clones:
- KFC® Extra Crispy™ Chicken
- Mrs. Field's® Cookies
- Red Lobster® Garlic Cheese Biscuits
- Auntie Anne's® Pretzels
- KFC® Cole Slaw
- Doubletree Hotel® Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Krispy Kreme® Donuts
Even More Top Secret Recipes
Armed with his domestic detective tips, Wilbur's newest book gives readers the skinny on what makes Newman's Own® Creamy Caesar Dressing™ stay so creamy and what the big secret is that makes KFC's Extra Crispy Chicken so darn good. Served up with Wilbur's "special sauce" of spunk and wit, Even More Top Secret Recipes is an essential cookbook for anyone who wants to duplicate these and other treasured recipes of American culture.
About the Author
The insatiably curious Todd Wilbur is the author of Top Secret Recipes, More Top Secret Recipes, Top Secret Restaurant Recipes, Low-Fat Top Secret Recipes, Top Secret Recipes Lite!, and Top Secret Recipes: Sodas, Smoothies, Sprits and Shakes. It all got started in 1987 when Wilbur received a recipe containing the "secret" ingredients for Mrs. Fields chocolate chip cookies, which tasted nothing like the real thing. He came up with a better clone himself, and has gone on to clone many more. He has whipped up an array of tasty "top-secret" treats on Oprah!, the Today Show, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, and MTV News. His clones, books and other information can also be found at www.topsecretrecipes.com.
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"Secret" KFC Recipe
Todd Wilbur has not yet cloned the famous KFC biscuits in any of his previous books, but he was able to sneak this recipe from the KFC kitchens…courtesy of the Colonel himself!
Kentucky Biscuits
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Baking Time: 10-13 minutes
1½ cups flour (before sifting)
1½ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
2/3 cup milk
1/3 cup vegetable shortening
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit
- In a mixing bowl, sift flour, salt, sugar, and baking powder
- Make a nest in the flour mix and add milk
- Add shortening and begin kneading with hands (to cut in) the vegetable shortening and flour in the milk until thoroughly mixed
- Add milk, if needed to form, and mix
- Turn onto floured board, and knead gently 6 to 8 times
- Pat dough to ½-inch thickness
- Cut into biscuits
- Place on baking sheet and brown in oven 10-13 minutes
- Makes about 9 biscuits
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