![]() “It was literally farm to table from that same property. “That meal was made with farm fresh vegetables,” Lynxwiler said. What set Knott’s apart was that it offered a full meal - with the same chicken soup, side of rhubarb, biscuits and mashed potatoes they still serve today - that included a slice of their famous boysenberry pie. Many other restaurants in Orange County were serving fried chicken at the time Cordelia started offering hers on her wedding china. Julie Tremaineīut the chicken is more than chicken: It’s a journey - and a destination. There are only four ingredients: chicken, oil, flour and salt.Ĭordelia Knott's recipe for fried chicken only uses four ingredients. When Knotts’ food and beverage director Wilf Seymour gave a demonstration on how to cook it at a theme park convention in 2020, he revealed the recipe. Today, the berry fields behind it are a theme park, Knott’s Berry Farm. Knott’s Chicken Dinner Restaurant, which is in the same location today that it started in 1934. The berry stand, and its small attached tea room, eventually became Mrs. “It was something like four dinners turned to eight dinners, turned to 16 dinners, turned to 32 dinners, and it just kept multiplying from there.” “It was just unbelievable how it grew almost exponentially,” he explained. ![]() He describes himself as an “official unofficial historian” of the theme park, and has worked there in different capacities in design and marketing over the years. “When Cordelia put her family fried chicken recipe on a dinner table in their existing tea room, they were trying to make ends meet,” Eric Lynxwiler told SFGATE. What started as a tea room that only sold about four meals a day eventually turned into a theme park that can hold 29,000 people at once.ĭiners at the restaurant in the 1940s. To supplement their income, Cordelia Knott started cooking.
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