Todd Wilbur - More Top Secret Recipes: More Fabulous Kitchen Clones of America’s Favorite Brand-Name Foods

The mission: Decode the secret recipes for Americas favorite junk foods. Equipment: Standard kitchen appliances. Goal: Leak the results to a ravenous public.

USA TODAY

KITCHEN WIZARD TODD WILBUR IS AT IT AGAIN, CRACKING THE CODES TO MORE OF AMERICAS BRAND-NAME FAVORITES, SUCH AS:

• A & W ROOTBEER with the frosty mug taste. No, you dont have to dig up any roots or buy any beer. All you need is a root beer concentrate found in most grocery storesand an unexpected secret ingredient
• LITTLE CAESARS CRAZY SAUCE. Who would have dreamed that this great Italian sauce originated in Detroit! Now you can whip up a batch at home and have a great fresh pizza sauce or a dipping sauce to use withwhat else!LITTLE CAESARS CRAZY BREAD.
• NESTL CRUNCH. This classic candy bar is incredibly easy to makeespecially since Nestl conveniently provides you with its own incomparable chocolate right in the baking aisle of your supermarket.

Theres something almost magically compelling about the idea of making such foods at home. The allure [of Top Secret Recipes] is undeniable, and its stuffed with tidbits and lore that youre unlikely to find anywhere else.

BOSTON HERALD

TODD WILBUR is the bestselling author of Top Secret Recipes, More Top Secret Recipes, Top Secret Restaurant Recipes, Top Secret RecipesLite!, and Low-Fat Top Secret Recipes (all available from Plume). When not taste-testing recipes on himself, his friends, or TV talk-show hosts, Todd lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Visit the Top Secret Recipes website at:

www.topsecretrecipes.com

TODD WILBUR

MORE FABULOUS KITCHEN
CLONES OF AMERICAS
FAVORITE BRAND-NAME FOODS

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR

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Copyright Todd Wilbur, 1994

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA

Wilbur, Todd.

More top secret recipes: more fabulous kitchen clones of Americas favorite brand-name foods / Todd Wilbur : with illustrations by the author.

p. cm.

ISBN: 978-1-101-63985-6

1. Cookery, American. 2. Junk food. I. Title.

TX715.W6584 1994

641.5973dc20 94-14369

PUBLISHERS NOTE

The recipes contained in this book are to be followed exactly as written. The Publisher is not responsible for your specific health or allergy needs that may require medical supervision. The Publisher is not responsible for any adverse reactions to the recipes contained in this book.

Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

To my doctor, Stanley Silverman,
for his comforting reassurance that
my cholesterol count has not yet
reached dangerously high levels.

A book like this could not have been completed without the efforts of many. To these people, I cordially extend my thanks for their contributions, whether large or small.

At Plume, to Julia Moskin, Carole DeSanti, Tracey Guest, Lisa Johnson, Elaine Koster, and anyone else who put faith and hard work into this project, and who helped to make sense of my fragmented sentences and misplaced modifiers, and turn them into a book.

To my patient taste testers, critics and very close friends, who helped me with words of advice, and who slapped sense into me when I slipped into sugar shock: Ellen Geiger, Bob Stein, Ronnie Rubino, Allen Caminiti, Felipe Bascope, Scott Layer, JoEllen Kleckner, Beverly Reiley, Brother Scott, Dick and Jane, Velma, Tom and Sue Anthony, Maryland National Mortgage Company, spunky Deidre Strain, and Zebu the Wonder Chow.

Thank you all.

A s with the first Top Secret Recipes, each of these recipes was subjected to an array of bakings and mixings, batch after batch, until the closest representation of the actual commercial product was finally achieved. I did not swipe, heist, bribe, or otherwise obtain any formulas through coercion or illegal means. Id like to think that many of these recipes are the actual formulas for their counterparts, but theres no way of knowing for sure. In such cases of closely guarded secret recipes, the closer one gets to matching a real products contents, the less likely it is that the protective manufacturer will say so.

The objective here is to match the taste and texture of our favorite products with everyday ingredients. In most cases, obtaining the exact ingredients for these mass-produced foods is nearly impossible. For the sake of security and convenience, many of the companies have contracted confidentially with vendors for the specialized production and packaging of each of their products ingredients. These prepackaged mixes and ingredients are then sent directly to the company for final preparation.

Debbi Fields of Mrs. Fields Cookies, for example, arranged with several individual companies to custom manufacture many of her cookies ingredients. Her vanilla alone is specially blended from a variety of beans grown in various places around the world. The other ingredientsthe chocolate, the eggs, the sugars, the flourall get specialized attention specifically for the Mrs. Fields company. The same holds true for McDonalds, Wendys, KFC, and most of the big-volume companies.

Even if you could bypass all the security measures and somehow get your hands on the secret formulas, youd have a hard time executing the recipes without locating many ingredients usually impossible to find at the corner market. Therefore, with taste in mind, substitution of ingredients other than those that may be used in the actual products is necessary to achieve a closely cloned end result. Happy cloning!