IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF ANCHOVIES."
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Wellington Burgess, of No. 107, Strand,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
PREPARATION OF ANCHOVIES."
"
Sealed the 2nd June 1863,, and dated the 11th December 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Wellington Burgess
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 11th December 1862.
I, ARTHUR WELLINGTON BURGESS, of No. 107, Strand, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF ANCHOVIES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements upon the subject matter of Letters
Patent granted to Elizabeth Ann Sellon Burgess Burgess, for " Improvements
in the Preparation of Anchovies," dated 12th November 1859 (No. 2573),
and in carrying out the said Invention, I proceed in the following manner.
The anchovies are to be first scraped or rubbed with a blunt instrument.so
as to remove all the salt and other extraneous matters, and the heads and tails
then taken off. The fish is next to be washed in cold spring water and after-
wards carefully wiped with linen cloths. So far the process is similar to that
described in the Specification of the Letters Patent above referred to.
The fish is then to be split into halves longitudinally and the bones removed,

page_text: and the inside being wiped they are to be placed in bottles, jars, or other
suitable receptacles. I then take a sufficient quantity of good fresh butter,
and well mix therewith a portion of the baysalt, in which the anchovies have
been preserved, and having warmed the same I pour it in a fluid state into
the vessels containing the fish, so as to completely surround and cover the latter,
and when the butter is cold I close the vessels air-tight. By this means the
pure flavor of the fish is retained for an unlimited period, and the fish is
preserved in a state fit to be placed on the table and eaten at once, the butter
in which they have been preserved being spread upon the toast or bread and
eaten with the fish.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Arthur Wellington Burgess in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 5th June 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR
WELLINGTON BURGESS, of No. 107, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Arthur Wellington Burgess, Her special licence, that I, the said Arthur
Wellington Burgess, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Arthur Wellington Burgess, my 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF ANCHOVIES," upon the condition,
amongst others, that I, the said Arthur Wellington. Burgess, my exe-
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Arthur Wellington Burgess, 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, in writing, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to improvements on the subject matter of Letters
Patent granted to Elizabeth Ann Sellon Burgess Burgess, for "Improvements
in the Preparation of Anchovies," dated the Twelfth day of November, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, (No. 2573,) and consists in preparing
anchovies with butter in such a manner as to eradicate all extraneous matter,
to preserve and improve the flavor of the fish, and to impart to the butter the
delicate flavor of the anchovy without detriment to the fish itself.
In carrying out the said Invention I proceed as follows:-The anchovies
are to be first scraped or rubbed with a blunt instrument, so as not to injure
the skin and yet to divest it of all scales and to remove all the salt and other'
extraneous matters, and the heads and tails are then taken off. The fish is
next to be washed in cold spring water, and carefully wiped with linen cloths.
So far the process is similar to that described in the Specification of the Letters
Patent above referred to. The fish is then divided longitudinally and laid
open, and the whole of the bones are removed, and the inside being wiped they
are to be placed in bottles, jars, or other suitable receptacles. I then take a
sufficient quantity of good fresh butter, and well mix therewith a portion of the
baysalt in which the anchovies have been preserved, and having warmed the
same I pour it in a fluid state into the vessels containing the fish, so as to com-
pletely surround and cover the latter, and when the butter is cold I close the
vessel air-tight. Or, after having removed the bones and wiped the inside of
the fish, I proceed as follows:-I take fine salt butter (heated to about eighty
degrees) and pour so much into the pot or vessel as will cover the bottom of
the same, and I place thereon a layer of the fish ; I then
repeat this process
until the whole vessel is filled with alternate layers of butter and fish, and I
then close the mouth or lid of the vessel against the air in any effectual manner.
By this means the pure flavor of the anchovy is retained for an unlimited
period, and the fish is preserved in a state fit to be placed on the table and
eaten at once, and the delicate flavor of the anchovy is imparted to the butter
without detriment to the fish itself, so that the butter in which the anchovies
have been preserved may be spread upon the toast or bread, and eaten with
the fish.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention for
Improvements in the Preparation of Anchovies," together with the manner

page_text: in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect,
I would remark, in conclusion, that I claim as my Invention the preparation
of anchovies with butter in the manner herein-before specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Wellington Burgess, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Witness,
BRISTOW HUNT,
Solr. & Patent Agent,
1, Serle St.
Lincoln's Inn.
ARTHUR W. BURGESS. (L.S.)