A New or Improved Process for Manufacturing Food in a Concentrated Cooked Form.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 30th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 22nd Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Process for Manufacturing Food in a
Concentrated Cooked Form.
I, HERBERT WILLIAM HART of 9 Keppel Street, Russell Square, Middlesex,
Professor of Dietetic Pathology, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
•
My invention relates to a new or improved process, for manufacturing food in a
concentrated cooked form, from the grain of wheat, or other cereal, or cereals, whereby
such food can be quickly prepared for use. It is highly nutritious, and easily
digested advantages of great importance to troops on the march, and to travellers,
especially when compressed into the form of tablets, and in other forms for domestic
purposes.
In carrying out my invention, I first pulverise or grind the grain by any suitable
mcans, and then make it into paste by the addition of pure water, combined with
sugar, and a small proportion of gelatine and oxide of iron, or other suitable substance
in solution, the whole being well agitated and mixed and then subjected to a
temperature of 212 degrees Fahrenheit or thereabouts, until the water is evaporated
therefrom, and the substance thereby rendered perfectly dry and of the consistence of
pure gum.
By my process the gluten, starch, and mineral constituents of the grain, are
preserved, softened and intimately united in a homogeneous concentrated form,
possessing highly nutritious properties, it is compact and easy of subsequent treatment
for use.
A small quantity of my concentrated cereal food boiled with water for a few
minutes, produces a most palatable, highly nutritious, and economical food.
If milk be added, a palatable wholesome porridge can be made, or the cereal
food as above prepared may be mixed with Meat Extracts, Soups, Broths, as a
substitute for Rice, Barley, or Groats.
Dahi 58th day of March 1880
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said H. W. Hart.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Process for Manufacturing Food in a
Concentrated Cooked Form.
I HERBERT WILLIAM HART, of 9 Keppel Street, Russell Square, Middlesex,
Professor of Dietetic Pathology, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described, and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
My invention relates to a new or improved process for manufacturing food in a
concentrated cooked form from the grain of wheat or other cereal or cereals whereby
such food can be quickly prepared for use. It is highly nutritious and easily digested
advantages of great importance to troops on the march, and to travellers, especially
when compressed into the form of tablets, and in other forms, for domestic purposes.
In carrying out my invention, I first pulverize or grind the grain by any

page_text: suitable means, and then make it into paste by the addition of pure water, com-
bined with sugar, and a small proportion of gelatine, and oxide of iron in or about
the following proportions:
the whole being well agitated and mixed, and then subjected to a temperature
of 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or thereabouts, until the water is evaporated therefrom,
and the substance thereby rendered perfectly dry and of the consistency of pure
gum.
By my process the gluten starch and mineral, constituents of the grain are
preserved, softened, and intimately united in a homogeneous concentrated form,
possessing highly nutritious properties; it is compact, and easy of subsequent
treatment for use.
A small quantity of my concentrated cereal food boiled with water for a few
minutes, produces a most palatable, highly nutritious, and economical food.
If milk be added, a palatable wholesome porridge can be made, or the cereal food
as above prepared may be mixed with Meat Extracts, Soups, or Broths as a substitute
for Rice, Barley or Groats.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
The manufacture of food in a concentrated cooked form as hereinbefore described.
The 28th day of D
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said H. W. Hart.