Bill Collins (baker)

Bill Collins
Born(1931-07-11)11 July 1931
Bootle, Lancashire, England
Died3 March 2021(2021-03-03) (aged 89)
Education
Spouses
Joyce Ward
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(m. 1954; death 1997)​
Marjorie Arundale
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(m. 1998)​
Children4
Culinary career
Award(s) won

Thomas Hylton "Bill" Collins (11 July 1931 – 3 March 2021) was a British baker who,[1] with George Elton and Norman Chamberlain, developed the Chorleywood bread process at the British Baking Industries Research Association in Chorleywood.[2] He was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal in 1978.[3][4]

Works

  • The Creation and Control of Bread Crumb Structure

References

  1. ^ "How great Canadian wheat ruined industrial bread". eatthispodcast.com.
  2. ^ "Bill Collins obituary". The Times.
  3. ^ "Obituary: Bill Collins, co-inventor of the Chorleywood Bread Process", British Baker, 10 March 2021
  4. ^ "Bill Collins", The Times, p. 42, 5 April 2021


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