A NEW BEVERAGE
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Ciancaleone Ricu and Carlo Bartocci, of Fuligno,
Town in the Papal States, for the Invention of "A NEW BEVERAGE."
Sealed the 9th November 1855, and dated the 26th May 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Ciancaleone Ricu
and Carlo Bartocci at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 26th May 1855.
We, JEAN CIANCALEONE RICU and CARLO BARTOCCI, of Fuligno, Town in
the Papal States, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A
NEW BEVERAGE" to be as follows:-
We manufacture our new drink of a combination of tamarind with
any sweet alcoholic substance, such as molasses, sugar, &c. Our method of
preparing it is as follows:-We place ten parts (by weight) of tamarind
in a boiler with about 40 parts (by weight) of water, and boil the mixture
for three hours, more or less, keeping it well stirred to prevent the tamarind
adhering to the bottom of the vessel, and the liquid from acquiring an
unpleasant smell or taste. We then filter the decoction through a piece of
gauze or a sieve, and replace the clear liquor in the boiler. We apply heat, and
when it begins to boil, an equal weight of loaf sugar (or other sweet alcoholic
substance) is thrown in; the liquor is allowed to cool, and is then mixed with
water, in the proportion of 120 parts of liquor to 30 of water. The mixture
is then placed in a suitable receiver with a little yeast, and left to ferment in a

page_text: chamber in which the temperature is kept up to about 66° Fahrenheit. At
the end of 3 or 4 months an excellent beverage will be produced. The pro-
portions above stated may be varied at pleasure, so as to give different flavor
to the beverage.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jean Ciancaleone Ricu and Carlo Bartocci in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 13th November 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JEAN
CIANCALEONE RICU and CARLO BARTOCCI, of Fuligno, Town in the Papal
States, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Jean Ciancaleone Ricu and Carlo Bartocci, Her special licence that we,
the said Jean Ciancaleone Ricu and Carlo Bartocci, our exccutors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as wo, the said Jean Ciancaleone Ricu and
Carlo Bartocci, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW BEVERAGE,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Jean Ciancaleone Ricu
and Carlo Bartocci, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals,
or under the hand and seal of one of us, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Jean Ciancaleone Kicu and Carlo
Bartocci, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
Our Invention consists in obtaining a beverage similar in taste and
appearance to wine, from tamarinds combined with any sweet alcoholic
substance and water; and the manner in which we proceed is as follows:-

page_text: We place ten parts (by weight) of tamarind in a boiler with about forty parts
(by weight) of water, and boil the mixture for three hours, more or less,
keeping it well stirred to prevent the tamarind adhering to the bottom of the
vessel, and the liquid from acquiring an unpleasant smell or taste. We then
filter the decoction through a piece of gauze or a sieve, and replace the clear
liquor in the boiler. We apply heat, and when it begins to boil, an equal
weight of loaf sugar (or other sweet alcoholic substance) is thrown in; the
liquor is allowed to cool, and is then mixed with water, in the proportion of
120 parts of liquor to 30 of water. The mixture is then placed in a suitable
receiver with about five pounds and a half of yeast, and left to ferment in a
chamber in which the temperature is kept up to about 66° Fahrenheit. At
the end of three or four months, according to the state of the atmosphere, an
excellent beverage will be produced, having a taste similar to marsala, madeira,
port, &c. The proportions above stated may be varied at pleasure, so as to
give different flavors to the beverage.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim the making
of a new beverage from tamarinds, combined with sugar or other sweet
alcoholic substances and water.
In witness whereof, we, the said Jean Ciancaleone Ricu and Carlo
Bartocci, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifteenth day
of October, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
5 Witness,
GIOVANNI CIANCALEONI RICU. (L.S.)
CARLO BARTOCCI.
(LS.)
CH. ARMENGAUD, Ing" Civil,
à Paris, 6, Filles du Calvaire.