{"id":947,"date":"2024-07-29T16:43:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T20:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/?post_type=mwhof&#038;p=947"},"modified":"2024-07-29T16:43:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T20:43:25","slug":"mabel-white-holmes","status":"publish","type":"mwhof","link":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/mabel-white-holmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mabel White Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>(1890 \u2013 1977)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mabel White Holmes is the inventor of JIFFY baking mixes, America\u2019s first prepared baking mix. JIFFY mixes have been made locally in Chelsea, Michigan since 1930. Today, JIFFY is an internationally known brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company was founded as a flour mill by Holmes\u2019 father, E.K. White, in 1887 and in 1901 was incorporated under the name Chelsea Milling Company (CMC). In 1908, the mill was sold to her father-in-law, Harmon Holmes, and her husband, Howard Holmes began running the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holmes first had the idea to make a prepared baking mix when her sons came home for lunch one day with a friend from school. The boy\u2019s widowed father had packed his lunch with a very flat biscuit and Holmes realized there was a need for families to be able to quickly bake and produce something appetizing. As Holmes\u2019 grandson, the current President and CEO of CMC later put it, \u201cshe wanted to save homemakers time in the kitchen and make a mix so easy that even a man could make it.\u201d Holmes wanted her mix to include as many necessary ingredients in the package as possible, excluding only the perishable eggs and milk. She also had the idea to make the packages small enough to produce dinner just for one night, in order to reduce waste and allow customers to have fresh baked goods on a daily basis. The mixes would also be versatile, allowing the baker to use the same package to make various recipes, following a simple set of directions. The name came from Holmes\u2019 childhood, when her family cook would announce that hot biscuits would be ready in a \u201cjiffy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":948,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-947","mwhof","type-mwhof","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.2 (Yoast SEO v26.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mabel White Holmes - Michigan Women Forward<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mabel White Holmes is the inventor of JIFFY baking mixes, America\u2019s first prepared baking mix.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/mabel-white-holmes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mabel White Holmes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mabel White Holmes is the inventor of JIFFY baking mixes, America\u2019s first prepared baking mix.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/mabel-white-holmes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Michigan Women Forward\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MichiganWomenForward\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/mabel-white-holmes.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/mabel-white-holmes\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/mabel-white-holmes\/\",\"name\":\"Mabel White Holmes - 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