- Custard — 2022-09-19 23:50:44
…g" class="left" title="Apple Pie & Custard" width="" }} ::cl:: == Allergy == Alfred's wife, Lady Bird, was allergic to egg and yeast but she adored custard. Alfred Bird set about trying to find a way of…
…ith milk and heated. {{Image url="BirdsCustard.jpg" class="right" title="Birds Custard" width="300" }} He formed **'Alfred Bird and Sons Ltd'** and later went on to create a formula for [[baking_powder | Baking powder]], blancmange powder, je…
…lly powder, and egg substitute. {{Image url="AlfredBirdPlaque.jpg" class="left" title="Alfred Bird Plaque" width="220" }} … - Crufts — 2022-05-03 17:14:00
…="left" title="Crufts Winner" width="" }} ::c:: === Charles Cruft 1886 === Crufts was named after its founder, Charles Alfred Cruft, who worked as general manager for a dog biscuit manufacturer. Charles was born in 1852 Bloomsbury [[Sussex]],…
- Ray Milland — 2021-08-20 10:42:20
…86" death_place="Torrance, California" }} === Ray Milland 1907 === ~-[[Entertainment]]:[[1900s]] Ray Milland was born **Alfred Reginald Jones** in Glamorgan [[Wales]] 1907, the son of Elizabeth Annie (née Truscott) and steel mill superintendent…
… Alfred Jones He was a major Hollywood movie Oscar winning lead actor. He is remembered for his part in the Alfred Hitchcock film, Dial M for Murder (1954).… - Baking Powder — 2021-08-12 20:27:52
…la for baking powder is essentially the same as is used in modern baking powders today. {{Image url="AlfredBirdPlaque.jpg" class="left" title="Alfred Bird Plaque" width="220" }} == Explained == Baking powder is a dry chemica…
- Tarmac — 2021-08-09 21:38:37
…icate Limited// registered in 1903, Tarmacadam in honour of J L ""McAdam"". The **Tarmac** company was relaunched by Alfred Hickman in 1905. == Beginnings of Macadam == **John Loudon ""McAdam""** was born in Ayr, Scotland in 1756. He moved…
- Marmite — 2021-04-03 10:38:16
…ste from the spent yeast, but it has emerged it was created and patented in the late 1800s by a brewer's clerk called **Alfred Oxford** employed in Burton-on-Trent. The patent had lapsed so the Gilmours sought to turn the process into a business…
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