Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-04-04

New AfticIe OF EOOd..Meat Biscuit.
Some time since we noticed new kind of Meat
Biscuit, or Portable Desiccated Soup Bread"
invented by MIR. Gail Borden, Jr., highly res
pectable citizen of Galveston, Texas. The dis
coverY being fully secured by patent recently
granted, we will give brief but clear description
OF it, as it is an invention of the first importance,
both 10 our own country, and 1t may be said, to
the whole human race. The nature Of this dis
covery consists in preserving the concentrated nu-
tri,ious properties of flesh meat of any kind, COM
bining it with flour and baking it into biscuits
One pound Of this bread contains the extract of
more than five pounds ofthe best -(contain-
ing lis usual proportion of bone)-a one ounce
Of il will make pint of rich soup Biscuits by
MIR. Bordens process may be made of beef, veal,
fowls flesh, oysters &c, and thus in compact
form the very essence of agricultural products,
fitted for the traveller mariner, for the dwell
ers in distant cities, may be transported by sea
or land, from distant rural districts, where flesh
meat is comparatively cheap.
In letter to DR.. Ashbel Smith, Mr.. Borden
thus relates the way he made this discovery:
q was endeavoring to make some partabe
meat glue the common kind known) for some
friends who were going to California II had set
up large kettle and evaporating pan, and after
two days abouI reduced one hundred and TWEEN
ty pounds of veal to ten pounds of extract, ofa
consstence like melted glue and molasse the
weather was warm and rainy, it being the middle
Of July | could not dry it either in or out Of the
house, and unwilling to lose my labour, it oc-
CURED TO me, after various expedients, TO mix the
article with good flour and bake it, To my great
satisfaction the bread was found to contain all the
primary principles Of meat, and with better favor
than simple veal soup, thickened with flour in the
ordinary method.
This process of mixing and baking, found to
be easily and quickly done, and TO answer the doub
! L. oT tbo 10 Tho
nutritious properties of animal and vegetable food,
SO essential to the heathlul sustenance of man.
This extract of animal flesh may be also combined
with corn, or other vegetable neal and for some
marine purposes, intend to employ the potato
and other aniiscorbutic vegetables, having farm
aceous qualities, to desccate the extract
/ Dr. Smith, gentleman Of scientific reputation,
has communicated paper on the subject to Prof.
Bache, President Of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. He says,-'l have
several times eaten of the soup made OF this meat
biscuit" and thus describes the manner Of max
: ing il:
Is The nuiritive portions OF beef or other meat,
Immediately on its belng slaughtered are, by long
boiling, separated from the bones and fibrous and
carllaginous matters: the water holding the nu-
ritious matters in solution is evaporated TO
siderable degree of spisstuda-thiS is then made
into dough with firm wheaton flour. the dough
rolled and cut into form OF biscuits, is then de-
siccated. or baked in an al a moderate heat.
the cooking, both Of the -four and the animal food
is thus complete. The meat biscuits thus prepared
have the appearance and frmness OF the nicesl
crackers or navy bread, being as dry, and break
ing or pulverizing readily as the most carefully
made table crackers. 1t is preserved in the form
Of biscuits, or reduced to coarse -four or meal. i
is kept in tin cases Theoretically soldered up: the
exclusion of air is not important, humidity alone
is TO be garded against have seen some Of The
biscuit perfectly fresh and sound that have beer
hanging in sacks since last July in Mr.. Borden:
kitchen: and it is 10 be borne in mind that in thi:
climate articles contract moisture and moulde
promptly. unless kept dry by artificial heat.
For making soup OF the meat biscuit, a batter Il
first made Of the pulverzed biscuit and cold waite
this is stirred into boiling water-the boiling il
continued some ten or twenty mnutes-salt, pep
per, and other condiments are added TO suit th'
taste, and the soup is ready for the table. | have
eaten the soup several tlmes,-it has the fresh
lively, clean, and thoroughly done or cooked fla
vor iha, used 10 form the charm of the soups Of tn
Rocher de Cancale. Ii is perfectly free from tha
vapid unctuous stale taste which characterize
all prepared soups have heretofore tried at SCI
and elsewhere. Those chemical changes IN foo
which, IN common language, we denomInate COOK
ing have been perfectly effected in Mr.. Borden'
biscuit by the long continued boiling at first, an
The subsequent baking or roasting. The soup pre-
pared oil II is tflOS redoY 10 De ABSORBED lnto III
system without loss, and without tedious digestio
in the almentary canal, and is in the highest de
gree nutritious and invigora,ing.
The paramount excellence of Mr.. b. .'sdiscovery
appears to me TO consist in this, that it is nlea
biscuit-it is meat and bread. Human life ma
be sustained, as we all know, on diet OF slngl
kind but the highest degree of corporeal and men
tai strength and health can long be maintained onl
by the use Of both vegetable and animal food f; es
pecially when labors, fatigues and priyatons ar
TO be undergone. believe there does not exis
in nature or art the same amount OF nutriment i
as small bulk weight, and as we'll adapted t
support, efficiently and permanently, mental AM
physical yigor, as is concentrated in the meat bis
cult in question. One ounce of the biscuit mea
makes a pint of rich invigoratlng animal an
farinaceous soup by its combination with wate
all the requirements OF good foot are answered
animal and vegetable alment in sufficient bulk
form.
We publish the remarks Of Or. Smith, as eS
planave of the process of making it, and to sho'
The opinion of a scientific man on the subject :
We have also partaken Of this soup bread, an
consider it to be most excellent discovery, on
invaluable TO the geologst, surveyor, traveller an
voyager. Two pounds of it will supply one ma
for week, and fourteen pounds will support hi
for month 1t provides The means OF maxim
the Journey through the wilderness, to the prom
ised land on the borders of the Pacific, compare
lively easy.
L.. Coo,a ibiok thoi ioroo foot r