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Mabel White Holmes - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Mabel White Holmes
- Mabel White Holmes ((1890-12-01)December 1, 1890-November 1977) was the inventor of Jiffy baking mixes, and president of the Chelsea Milling Company.Born December 1, 1890 in Mattoon Illinois to mill owner E.K.
- White, Holmes was involved in the mill and flour industry from a young age.
- She graduated Chelsea High School in 1907 and then went on to pursue higher education at Eastern Michigan University, then known as Ypsilanti Normal College.
- Prior to her marriage to Howard S.
- Holmes and subsequent development of Jiffy Mix, Holmes was a school teacher in Illinois. Holmes' father, E.K.
- White, had founded a flour mill in 1887, which was incorporated as the Chelsea Milling Company in 1901.
- In 1908, White sold the company to Mabel's father-in-law, Harmon Holmes.
- Mabel's husband, Howard Holmes, ran the company until his death in 1936, after which she became company president.
- Holmes was active in the business until the early 1940s.Holmes first had the idea for a prepared, all-purpose baking mix in the late 1920s when she saw the poor quality of a biscuit made by the widowed father of her twin sons' friend.
- She wanted to develop a product that would save time in the kitchen and be so easy even a contemporary man could make it.
- Jiffy Biscuit Mix was introduced in 1930 as America's first prepared, all-purpose baking mix, named Jiffy Mix because it took so little time to prepare.
- Although Bisquick is widely accredited as being the first baking mix on the market due to its notoriety, Jiffy Mix was actually released first, thus holding the title of first all-purpose baking mix in America.
- At the time Jiffy Mix focused on sourcing only local, high quality ingredients from area flour mills and farms, this commitments to quality as well as a reputation for reasonable prices helped to develop Jiffy Mix's good reputation in Illinois and across the country. Today, Jiffy brand has branched out to include mixes for all manor of baked goods, from biscuits to pizza dough, although their staple item is still the corn muffin mix.
- Jiffy Brand today aims to serve the working class American, institutionalizing its famous little blue box as a piece of Americana.
- Despite Jiffy's humble aspirations and honesty to its roots, the brand generates over $130 million dollars in sales each year and is available for sale in all 50 states as well as wherever U.S.
- troops are stationed abroad. Holmes was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2015.
