Eagle Brand
Eagle Brand is an American brand for milk products and other foodstuffs, which is used in particular for milk in sterilized, condensed or otherwise concentrated or dried form. The brand name was first used in the 1850s for condensed milk by the "New York Condensed Milk Company", which operated under the company name "Borden Milk Products LP" from 1899 in honor of its founder Gail Borden . The name was shortened to "Borden" in the course of the company's history.
When Borden sold its condensed milk products in 1997, company employees acquired that part of the company. The brand has belonged to the US food group The JM Smucker Company since 2007; the group company that manufactures Eagle Brand products operates under the name "Eagle Family Foods Incorporated".
history
The name Eagle Brand is very likely the oldest brand name used for condensed milk. The brand name goes back to Gail Borden , who on August 19, 1856 was the first to be granted a patent for the industrial production of condensed milk.
Borden's early, more hagriographic biographies see Borden's attempts to preserve milk in a traumatic experience during the crossing between North America and Great Britain. On board the ship with which Borden traveled, cows were kept whose milk was to be used as food for the small children traveling with them. The cows fell ill during the crossing and eventually died, and as a result, the small children did not survive the crossing either. In her history of milk consumption, however, Deborah Valenze points out that a number of people were grappling with the shelf life of dairy products at that time. Milk was considered an important food for young children and the elderly at the time. The supply of fresh milk was difficult, especially in urban regions. There were regular scandals about spoiled and blended milk - condensed milk seemed to be an alternative to fresh milk supply. This also indicates that due to this need, a condensed milk industry quickly emerged in other countries as well.
In his own experiments, Borden was inspired, among other things, by the achievements of the shakers , which have already successfully preserved fruit. They used a cooking device that created a vacuum and preserved fruit that has been cooked for a long time without cooling. Louis Pasteur's work on the importance of microorganisms was still in the future, but even without this basis, Borden could see that boiled and vacuum-packed milk lasted longer and that the simple consideration of hygiene principles and the addition of sugar also contributed to the preservation.
Borden's product, which was marketed under the patriotic name Eagle Brand Milk , initially found few buyers. During the financial crisis of 1857 Borden was on the verge of bankruptcy, but then found an investor in the industrialist Jeremiah Milbank . The breakthrough for the company came when the United States Army first ordered 500 pounds of condensed milk in 1861 during the Civil War , which was soon followed by other orders. The demand increased so strongly that as a result Borden had to build several new production facilities. The success of this novel product was due to the high coffee consumption of American soldiers, who traditionally drank their coffee with milk and sugar, fresh milk was seldom available in the areas marked by the devastation of the civil war.
Product lines
- Eagle Brand Condensed Milk
- Eagle Brand Low Fat Condensed Milk
- Eagle Brand Signature Premium Dessert Kits
- Borden Eggnog
- Kava neutralized coffee
- None search mincemeat
literature
- Deborah Valenze: Milk: A Local and Global History . Yale University Press, New Haven 2011, ISBN 978-0-300-11724-0 .
Web links
Single receipts
- ↑ August 19, 1856 - The condensed milk is patented WDR.DE of August 19, 2011, accessed on November 7, 2014
- ↑ Deborah Valenze: Milk: A Local and Global History . P. 182.
- ↑ Deborah Valenze: Milk: A Local and Global History . P. 182.
- ↑ Deborah Valenze: Milk: A Local and Global History . P. 184.
- ↑ Deborah Valenze: Milk: A Local and Global History . P. 184.
- ↑ Kava Coffee website
- ↑ None Search website ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
