Baking mix

[12] The accumulated changes, which reduced the weight by about a quarter and added additional leavening agents, meant that some recipes based on combining standard-sized cake mixes with other ingredients, such as those in the Cake Mix Doctor cookbook by Anne Byrn, no longer worked.

[16][17] Some home bakers have attempted to compensate for this by adding flour, sugar, and other ingredients to the store-bought mix.

[1] Major manufacturers include Archer Daniels Midland, Dawn Foods, and General Mills.

[1] Arrowhead Mills[20] is a brand of organic baking mixes, cereals, grains and nut butters.

This diet was developed after Atkins read a research paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association published by Gordon Azar and Walter Lyons Bloom.

General Mills owns the brand Betty Crocker, under which a variety of foods are purveyed, including baking mixes.

She was a home economist and businesswoman under whose supervision the image of Betty Crocker became an icon for General Mills.

According to General Mills, Bisquick was invented in 1930 after one of their top sales executives met an innovative train dining car chef on a business trip.

As soon as the sales executive returned from that business trip, he stole the chef's idea and created Bisquick.

[6][25] The company is a producer of lines of natural, certified organic, and gluten-free milled grain products, billing itself as the "nation's leading miller of diverse whole-grain foods.

[29] In early 2012, the company introduced a line of baking mixes including pancakes, cookies, carrot cake and pumpkin bread.

[36] The Martha White brand is probably most associated with its long-term sponsorship of the Grand Ole Opry, a radio program featuring country music.

The company was founded in response to the growing number of children and adults diagnosed with food allergies.

11 million adults and children are affected by peanut, dairy, egg and nut allergens, while approximately one in 133 Americans suffers from celiac disease.

In 1996 the company's name was changed to The King Arthur Flour Co. to reflect its principal brand, and also converted to an employee-owned business structure.

Streit's is a kosher food company based in New York City that produces 11 cake mixes.

The company's 47,000-square-foot (4,400 m2) matzo factory, along with Katz's Delicatessen and Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery, is a surviving piece of the Lower East Side's Jewish heritage.