Pet Milk Company. Home Economics Department

Pet Milk Company. Home Economics Department appears to have been the in-house recipe and consumer-education team behind PET Milk, the American brand associated with evaporated milk. PET itself grew out of the Pet Milk Co., a company rooted in Highland, Illinois, and later known as Pet, Inc., which became widely associated with shelf-stable evaporated milk in the United States.

The department is credited with Pies Made with Pet Evaporated Milk, a promotional booklet now preserved by Project Gutenberg. The booklet is clearly practical in aim: it teaches home bakers how to make a range of pies while showing how PET evaporated milk could be used for texture, flavor, and economy.

Because this is a corporate department rather than an individual author, biographical details are limited. What survives is the work itself: straightforward, friendly kitchen guidance from the era when branded recipe pamphlets were a familiar part of American cooking culture.