secret recipe
Hidden cooking instructions
A secret recipe is a formula for preparing food or drink that the creator keeps confidential, typically to maintain commercial advantage or family tradition.
The term evokes mystique around dishes whose exact preparation remains undisclosed: KFC guards its secret recipe of eleven herbs and spices.
By extension, secret recipe applies to any proprietary method or winning combination: What's your secret recipe for a happy marriage?
- cookbookCulinary instruction manual
- Colonel SandersKentucky fried founder
- tasteFlavor perception ability
- proprietaryLegally owned, restricted use
- familyRelated people together
family heirloom · old world · guarded · locked away · ingredient · handwritten · dash · gravy · vault · undisclosed · confidential · traditional craft · pinch · concoction · culinary · sous vide · passed down · grandmother
- family traditionsfamily traditions, holiday dinner, family dinner, family reunions, bedtime story
- home cookinghome cooking, homemade, from scratch, comfort food, kitchen
- Grandma'scookies, quilt, quilts, rocking chair, hug
- trade secretsproprietary blend, formula, chemical formula, manufacturing process, source code
- signature itemsflagship product, bestseller, house special
- cure-allspanacea, cure-all, nostrum, snake oil, miracle cure
secret recipetraditional recipe
Time-honored cooking instructions
grandmother's recipe · heritage recipe · regional recipe · home cooking
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