Brief History and development

The present day concept of preservation of milk by concentration and by application of heat had the beginning with the pioneering work of Frenchman Nicholas Appert around 1793. Gail Bordon of United States of America was first to commercially exploit the method of concentration of milk under vacuum. He was awarded U.S.Patent in the year 1856 for processing milk in a semi fluid state after evaporating in vacuum. Commercial production of sweetened condensed milk by Gail Borden started in1856.

Jhon. B. Meyenberg, a swiss gentleman who migrated to United States was awarded a patent in 1884 for a process of sterilization of milk by steam under pressure. In the year 1885 evaporated milk was manufactured on commercial scale in United States based on the patent of Meyenberg. In India, the Amul Dairy is credited with commercial production of sweetened condensed milk in the year 1961.Nearly 55-60 percent of milk produced in India is from buffalo. It has now been established that there are considerable differences in the make-up of cow milk and buffalo milk and because of these differences buffalo milk is not found to be amenable to some established technology that are most suitable for cow milk. So far attempts to produce evaporated milk or sterilized concentrated milk from buffalo milk have met with only limited success. However condensed milk is a convenient product for house hold use because it has good keeping quality