Mabel White Holmes
Mabel White Holmes (December 1, 1890-November 1977) was the inventor of Jiffy baking mixes and president of the Chelsea Milling Company.[1]
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.[2] Mabel's husband, Howard Holmes, ran the company until his death in 1936, after which she became company president.[1][3] Holmes was active in the business until the early 1940s.[4]
Holmes first had the idea for a prepared baking mix in the late 1920s when she saw the poor quality of a biscuit made by the widowed father of her sons' friend.[2][1] She wanted to develop a product that would save time in the kitchen and be so easy even a man could make it.[2][5][4] Jiffy Biscuit Mix was introduced in 1930 as America's first prepared baking mix.[4]
She was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2015.[4]
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