Steve Pardo, The Detroit News 12:11 a.m. EDT April 30, 2015 Buy Photo Corn muffin mix is the company’s biggest seller. During the busy season, from Labor Day through January, the plant pumps out about 1.3 million boxes annually.(Photo: Photos by Daniel Mears / The Detroit News)Buy Photo CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE It was 85 years ago this month when Mabel White Holmes, the wife of a Chelsea flour mill owner, revolutionized the home-baking industry by coming up with a way to make biscuits "so easy even a man could do it." They named the mix "Jiffy," lifting part of a phrase said by a person who helped her mother out in the kitchen when she was a child, explained Mabel's grandson,...
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