Given that we will sell more condensed milk in December than in the other 11 months combined, it is a perfect time to learn something about the product!
Gail Borden was quite a guy!
From FoodReference.com
Gail Borden was a surveyor, inventor and businessman. As an early pioneer settler in Texas he made the first topographical map of Texas, and in 1838 he surveyed and laid out the site of Galveston. He developed a meat biscuit in 1851.
It was on a voyage to and from London to market his dehydrated meat biscuit that Borden got the inspiration to condense milk.
From BordenChemicals.com:
"Returning from London by ship, Borden was moved by the sight of young infants dying from impure cow's milk. Over the next two years, Borden applied the knowledge gained from his efforts at condensing foods to a new effort to purify and condense milk. In 1853, Borden filed a patent for his new milk condensing process, and in 1857, founded the New York Condensed Milk Company, later to become the Borden Company."
During the US Civil War, Borden signed a contract to supply Union troops with sweetened condensed milk. Interestingly, his son John fought for Union, his son Lee fought for the Confederacy. The People's Chronology, James Trager, p. 487
(This last part is from a sign in Allegany)
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