Jane Ellison was a fictional character created in the 1920s by the US food company Borden to promote its Eagle Brand

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. Jane, called a "culinary expert", promoted her "Magic Recipes" in magazine articles, on the radio, and in her 1930s pamphlets ''Magic! The most amazing short-cuts in cooking you ever heard of'' and ''New magic in the kitchen: quick, easy recipes made with sweetened condensed milk''. The name Jane Ellison was used for the Club Secretary of the Borden Recipe Club, actually various employees of the advertising department, and signed all the Bulletins of the Club. Like

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, she was also used as the contact point for consumers and signed correspondence with consumers. Her "Magic!" book is especially notable for its "Magic Lemon Cream Pie (uncooked filling)", the ancestor of

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.''New magic''
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/ref>Stella Parks. ''BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts'', 2017, , p. 171-172

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