Chelsea: Business

The Monroe Evening News reports on a speech that Howdy Holmes, president of Chelsea Milling Co. – maker of Jiffy Mix products – gave to the annual Monroe County Extension agriculture banquet this week: “He told the story how his grandmother, Mabel White Holmes, developed and introduced to homemakers the first prepared baking mix, in 1930. One day, she peeked inside a young neighbor boy’s lunch bag and found a homemade biscuit prepared by his father. ‘Wouldn’t it be nice to invent a mix and make it so easy that even a man could make it?’ she said.” [Source]