Today in History Food Edition February 5, 2024

St. Agatha Day
St Agatha Rolls
State Festivals
Annual New Mexico Chile Conference
Chocolate Fondue Day
Chocolate Fondue
World Nutella Day
Nutella
1644 The first livestock branding law in the American colonies is passed in Connecticut
Mongolian Beef
1850 Gail Borden was issued U.S. patent No. 7,066 for a method to produce 'Portable Desiccated Soup-Bread' - a meat biscuit capable of long term storage
Portable Desiccated Soup-Bread
1884 Willis Johnson of Cincinnati, Ohio received U.S. patent No. 292,821 for an 'Egg Beater'
Deviled Eggs
1914 William Burroughs, novelist, was born. He wrote 'Naked Lunch’
Eggs
1953 Rationing of sweets ends in Great Britain
Old-Fashioned English Candy
British Fudge
Chocolate Truffles
1967 Tom Smothers fell into a vat of chocolate today
Chocolate Fudge
Chocolate Fudge
1972 'American Pie' by Don McLean was number one on the music charts
Lemon Meringue Pie
1981 A new record Jell-O mold is created in Brisbane, Australia, using 9,246 gallons of Jell-O
Healthy Jello
2010 Five crates of Scotch whisky and 2 of brandy, buried under ice for more than 100 years, were recovered by a New Zealand team restoring an Antarctic hut used in 1909 by polar explorer Ernest Shackleton
Scotch Grain Whisky
Brandy