Improvements in the Manufacture of Meat-bread, Meat-cakes, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 17th June, 1898-Accepted, 6th Aug.,
1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Meat-bread, Meat-cakes, and
the like.
I, OTTO LISCHNER, of 23, Regierungs-strasse, Magdeburg, in the German
Empire, Manufacturer, 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: —
My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of meat-bread,
meat cakes, meat-biscuits and such like food consisting of a dough or paste of
flour with which is mixed or incorporated some specially prepared kind of meat or
flesh food, the object of my said improvements being to attain the necessary or
desired lightness or digestibility of the article made, without the use of such
artificial means as baking-powder, yeast and the like.
In the manufacture of meat-bread, biscuits cakes and the like, the method
hitherto employed has been to chop or mince raw meat, fowl, or game into small
pieces, and to mix or knead the same with dough or paste that has been prepared
with baking-powder bicarbonate of soda, soda, yeast or some such ingredient to
produce, the, or the appearance of the, necessary lightness or digestibility, but meat-
bread or the like so prepared does not retain its sweetness for any length of time
by reason of the excessive moisture in the raw meat and the dough or paste,
through which fermentation is set up followed by sourness and decomposition,
and the development of fungi and other germs, accellerated by the presence of the
acid matter in the dough, thus rendering such preparations not only indigestible,
but also unfit for weak or delicate stomachs, but according to my invention I am
enabled to produce meat-bread, biscuits cakes or the like possessing all the
necessary lightness and digestability without the employment of any artificial
means.
In carrying my invention into effect, the meat, fowl, or game intended to be
used, I first dry by the means of an oven, kiln, or other suitable and convenient
means, until the same is in such a condition as to be easily torn or divided into
fine shreads or fibres by the use of any machine adaptable for the purpose, care
being taken that this process is not carried out to such an extent that the said
meat or flesh is pulverized or becomes meally, but rather in a granular or fibrous
state, in order that the same may expand when exposed to the action of steam.
The dough or paste I prefer to make of good flour and water only, with, may
be, the addition of a little salt, and when this is ready I mix therewith a suitable
quantity of the meat or flesh previously prepared as stated, the whole being then
kneaded and formed into loaves, cakes, biscuits, nuts, or other forms as quickly
as possible and placed into an oven of suitable temperature to bake, during the
process of which the moisture in the dough or paste becoming heated or rendered
into steam mingles with and moistens the said fibres of meat or flesh, and causes
the latter to expand and so aerate and lighten the bread or pastry, and when the
said baking or cooking is completed, the loaves, cakes, or the like (as is necessary
with all kinds of bread conserves) should be removed from the oven, and be exposed

page_text: to a high temperature in a drying room, until the outside moisture or humidity
has evaporated, when the articles are ready for use and will keep for an almost
indefinite period with ordinary care.
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
(1) The herein described method of manufacturing meat-bread, meat-cakes
meat biscuits and the like without the use of artificial leavening substantially as
set forth.
(2) In the manufacture of meat-bread, biscuits cakes and the like, the herein
described method of combining dried and shreaded meat or flesh with a 'dough of
paste composed of flour and water, and the subsequent treatment of same sub-
stantially as set forth.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.