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Alfred Bird (245 words) |
 | Bird's wife suffered from a delicate digestion and was unable to digest any dishes prepared from eggs or bread containing yeast. |
| Bird turned his experimenting to trying to manufacture substitutes for eggs and for a raising agent (yeast being the only raising agent available at that time). |
| Bird was later joined by two sons and a company was formed under the name of Alfred Bird & Sons. |
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Alfred Bird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (294 words) |
| Alfred Bird senior was born in Digbeth, Birmingham in 1811. |
| Alfred Bird senior died in 1878 and is buried at Key Hill Cemetery in Birmingham. |
| Bird junior went on to invent egg substitute powder in 1890, blancmange powder and jelly powder. |
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