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Pet Milk Company
A pioneering American company, it helped make evaporated milk a household staple and published practical cookbooks and homemaking guides that reflected everyday life in the early 20th century.
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Season's best dishes for 2 or 4 or 6
by Mary Lee Taylor, Pet Milk Company
About the author
Founded in St. Louis in 1885 as the Helvetia Milk Condensing Company, the business later became famous for its PET Milk brand and eventually took the name Pet, Inc. It was an early leader in shelf-stable evaporated milk, a product that became especially important before home refrigeration was common.
Beyond selling dairy products, the company also published recipe booklets, baby-care guides, and other promotional household literature. Those publications were designed to be useful as well as persuasive, which makes them interesting today as snapshots of American cooking, marketing, and domestic life.
Because this is a company author rather than a single writer, there is no clear author portrait tied to its books. The image provided is a historical portrait of John Meyenberg, a key early figure associated with the company’s origins in condensed and evaporated milk.