Hmmmm,,, looks like I didn't proof read the title line very well...
Years ago, Mr. Herter---
yeah, The! Herter's guy went around the country gathering favorite recipes from famous places and people in history.
He published three cookbooks that I know of and have had the pleasure to read--- then I had to give them back to a friend.
Mr. Herter did a lot of other things besides pioneering affordable reloading equipment.
He also sold ingredients is small quantities to make commercial cooking recipes at home so they'd come out right.
Like flour-- You can't make dough nuts like the shops do because you can't buy the flour they use
in less than 100 pound bags. Even then, you have to know how and where to shop for them.
He repackaged and sold it in 5 or 10 pound bags through mail order.
In one book, he wrote of Jefferson Davis. He was graduate of West Point, owned a cotton plantation in Mississippi,
had been the Secretary of War, a Democrat House Representative and later a Senator from Mississippi.
Times change,,,,, and fortunes improve:
What he called 'the saddest day of his life', he resigned from the US Senate when Mississippi left the Union.
He later became the President, and Commander in Chief of the Confederate States of America.
During his life, he had severe dental problems.
Perhaps his favorite food was fried chicken, but his teeth & gums were too sensitive to be able to eat it.
His family cook figured out if she made regular fried chicken, then ran it a few minutes in a pressure cooker-
he could still have and enjoy it.
I think that might have been the idea or inspiration Col. Sanders had to make the fried chicken he became famous for
when he was the cook at a truck stop.
His biography speaks about him loading up his pressure cooker into his old station wagon when it closed.
If Mr. Herter learned of the way Jefferson Davis liked chicken, it couldn't have been much of a secret.
The KFC places use a pressure fryer now, but if we do it the way he first did it in our home pressure cookers,
I think we can more or less duplicate his REAL original recipe using some copy cat recipe for the spices and breading.
-----And get pretty close to Jefferson Davis' favorite meal.