The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-09
CONDENSED RATIoNs.
COFFEE For A MONTH CARRIED IN
A FouR-OUNCE PACKAGE.


A FouR-oUNCE PACKAGE.
Extracts of Various Edib1es
VIII Come In Handy In Time Of War.
Everything In tho Eating Line Carefully
Boiled Down.
When Uncle Sam next goes to war, the
soldiers who fight under the starry flag
will be supplied with coffee In a shape so
highly condensed that one 4-ounce pack
age will serve as months rations for
each man. The concentrated preparation
will be given out perhaps as dry powder,
but more probably In the form of small
lozenges, resembling cough drops in size
and shape. These lozenges will be inclosed
In tin boxes OF 100, each OF them weigh
ing gram and representing one cup OF
coffee. For preparing the beverage no
coffeepot Is required, 1t being necessary
merely to put coffee tablet into the cup
and pour boiling water upon it, when the
coffee is instantly made.
Sugar and milk can be added to suit the
taste. In France such coffee lozenges OF
comparatively large size have been recently
introduced, being made bulky by the addi-
ton of sugar for sweetening, but everybody
does not care for sugar, and therefore those
which have lately begun to be manufac-
tured in this country have been made plain.
The processes by which coffee is thus con
centrnted are very interesting. To begin
with the beans are roasted in an enormous
oven and ground in huge mill, Then they
are put into great iron vessel, which IL
nothing more nor less than gigantic cot
feepot, holding 24o pounds mt time. Hun
drctls of gallons Of filtered water IRE pumped
ta1N 1,pt Jrlt
principle, and the infusion is drawn off tt
an evaporating tank. A steam pump keep
the air exhausted from this tank 30 thai
the coffee il in vacuo, being heated mean
while to high temperature by steam pipes
| The water 1t contains rapidly passes off
| and the coffee is of about the consistency o
molasses when II is taken out, 1t is pouret
| into trays of enanieled ware, and these tray
| are placed on shelves in another evaporator
| When the trays are removed a short tim
later the coffee is dry solid, which /
scraped of the trays, ground to powder AM
nodded into lozenges.
| There is no reason why the government
should not prepare coffee in this way on
large scale in the event of war Mt yer
great saving BY the process described on
pound of beans can be made to produc
more than 100 cups BY inquiry it has bee
ascertained that hotels and restaurant
only get from Is to 80 cups from the sam
quantity, the minimum being reported b
the most extensive establishments and tn
maximum by the cheapest eating houses
The reason for this is that the usual plan
to make the infusion and throw away TIL
grounds, which still contain two-thirds Q
more of the original strength of the coffee
OF course for commercial purposes tn
lozenges can be made of Rio, Mocha or aH
other variety of the bean. to suit the tast'
From the military point of view, the az
vantage Of dispensing with bulky utensil
for preparing coffee would be important
Experiments have recently been made wit
SUCCESS in the treatment of tea by sinio
) methods, and before long a dry soluble e
sence produced from the leaves will be o
fered In the market, a tiny dram bottl
holding 20 tablets, each representing or
cup
Eggs are now sold on the market in
shape resembling sawdust. The chief Gel
ter for the manufacture of this product
, St. Louis. where great quantities of cgl
are bought up in summer, when the prit
of them goes down to almost nothing The
are broken into pans the whites and yoll
separate, and evaporated to perfect drynes
/, Finally they are scraped from the pans M
! grauuated by grinding when they a
c ready for shipment in bulk. Bakers, co
: fectoners and hotels use eggs Ia this forr
which Is an important saving at seasol
when they are dear in the shell. 1t is wit
: out doubt fact that most of the eggs so
= In cities during che winter have been Ike
0 over from the previous summer by pickliI
= them In brine or limo water, so that peop
: should be thankful for desiccated subs
d tutc.
Il A manufactured product Of similar {
}; scription, called "egg albumcn" is impo
" ed from abroad II looks very much like
\ fine quality of glue, broken into small bi
l. golden yellow, transparent and decided
pretty The eggs OF wild fowls of vario
d species are largely employed In making il
;. tho whites, that il to say, tho yolks, bel
!, utilized in Europe for tanning leather, ~
4. "egg alhumen" is used by bakers and
Z. glazing prints. 1t costs 55 cents n pou
Is retail.
Condensed jellies are becoming an
=, portant commercial article. They
L made in the shape of little bricks, ca
d weighing three ounces. and with an ms
" wrapper Of oiled paper. According to
l.. directions, the brick is to be put into a p
T. of boiling water aud stirred until 1t is {
solved. The mixture is then poured II
a. q mold or other vessel and put In C
s- place. In u few hours the jelly is "set" a
p ready for use, pint and a half OF it.
= never fails to "jell," which point is
= cause of 30 much anxiety to amateur ie
~ makers.
The bricks are favored with varit
= fruits, currant, raspberry, grape, etc, {
T some are of pure calves foot jelly, to VIII
= wine may DO added for wine jelly, pre-
8 ably Sicily madeira. Fifteen cents br
ne Is the retail price Concentrated ice ere
j. is put up Ia tins of eight ounces each.
: contents OF can are to be put in I'll
OK OK pints of boiling milk, stirred we'll, peri
- ted to cool and then frozen, producing
= quarts OF leo cream. Condensed dess
81 are prepared and sold in cans simiia
to- huct as piano hihnse'-Sah HteAAiSi'So
ar amineE