Kentucky Southern Fried Chicken Authentic - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    10 lbs fresh roasting chickens, cut into parts
    4 quarts buttermilk
    1/16 cup cayenne pepper
    1/16 cup black pepper
    1/16 cup salt
    8 cups white flour
    1 gallon peanut oil (for frying)
Preparation
    Mix half of dry( excluding flour) ingreidents with butter milk.
    Stir butter milk mixture well.
    Place chicken parts in butter milk ( zip-lock bags work well) in refrigerator for one week.
    Mix other half of dry ingrdients with flour.
    Drain chicken in a large colander or strainer until the butter milk mixture is only dripping down at a drip drop pace, about 20 minutes.
    Heat oil to 390 degrees in a large pan, deep fryer, or dutch oven. use a candy thermometer to maintain temperature( they cost about $6.00).
    Toss chicken in flour like you would shake and bake stuff.
    Shake off excess flour.
    Deep fry chicken in hot peanut oil until a deep golden brown and cooked through.

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