science · 05 February 1850 · 174 years ago
In 1850, Gail Borden of Brooklyn, NY, was issued a U.S. patent his process that baked a combination of extracts from meat with flour to produce a meat biscuit capable of long term storage (No. 7,066). This gave a convenient method that a preserved meat-based product could be carried by the military, seamen and other travellers. Because it could be reconstitued with hot water as a soup, the patent title was “Preparation of Portable Soup-Bread.” Six years later, he perfected a process to heat milk in a vacuum to produce condensed milk capable of extended storage. He started a company to distribute the condensed milk in large cities. The Borden company is today one of the largest dairy product concerns in the world.
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