An Improved Flour or Food Preparation
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1898
An Improved Flour or Food Preparation.
We, CHARLES JOHN KERR, of No. 16, Strand Road, Calcutta, India, Shipping
Agent, and ALICE KERR, of 5, Fairlie Place, Calcutta, India, Gentlewoman, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved flour or food preparation, and has for
its object to provide a flour to be used as a staple article of diet, and which will
possess considerable nutritive properties while at the same time it will be palat-
able to the taste and inexpensive of manufacture.
In carrying our invention into practice we take the grains of the plant known
as raggi, (eleusine coracana) a product of Southern India, and the washed,
scalded, and dried tubers of the salep misri, (orchis mascula) a product of
Northern India, and grind these two products together, in roller mills or by other
suitable means, until they are reduced to a flour or granular condition of the
minutest form.
The two aforesaid products constituting the ingredients of our improved flour
or food, may either be ground together without the husks being removed, or
they may be subjected to a suitable milling process for removing such husks
before they are ground together.
P
1
1000
An Improved Flour or Food Preparation.
We, CHARLES JOHN KERR, of No. 16, Strand Road, Calcutta, Shipping
Agent, and ALICE KERR, of 5, Fairlie Place, Calcutta, India, Gentlewoman, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention relates to an improved flour or food preparation, and has for
its object to provide a flour to be used as a staple article of diet, and which will
possess considerable nutritive properties while at the same time it will be palat-
able to the taste and inexpensive of manufacture.
In carrying our invention into practice we take the grains of the plant known
as raggi, (eleusine coracana) a product of Southern India, and the washed,

page_text: scalded and dried tubers of the salep misri, (orchis mascula) a product of
Northern India, and grind these two products together in roller mills or by other
suitable means until they are reduced to a flour or granular condition of the
minutest form.
The two aforesaid products constituting the ingredients of our improved flour
or food, may either be ground together without the husks being removed, or
they may be subjected to a suitable milling process for removing such husks
before they are ground together.
The flour or food produced in the manner before described can be used as an
article of diet by children and adults, invalids or persons in health, and it is
adapted to be prepared for the table in numerous ways, such as any of those
employed in the preparation of wheaten, oaten, or similar foods.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our soid
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
The improved flour or food preparation, composed of the grains of raggi
(eleusine coracana) and the washed, scalded and dried tubers of salep misri (orchis
mascula) ground and mixed together, substantially as specified.
CH118
1st day of January 1000.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., for the Applicants.