IMPROVEMENTS IN SPICING AND PREPARING MALT OR DISTILLED VINEGAR, RENDERING THE SAME BETTER SUITED FOR PICKLING PURPOSES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Annetta Jane Honor Hutchings, of Numbers
2 and 3, Quay Head, in the City and County of Bristol, Widow,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPICING AND PREPARING MALT
OR DISTILLED VINEGAR, RENDERING THE SAME BETTER SUITED FOR PICKLING
PURPOSES."
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Sealed the 13th May 1878, and dated the 17th February 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Annetta Jane Honor
Hutchings at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with her
Petition, on the 17th February 1873.
I, ANNETTA JANE HONOR HUTCHINGS, of Numbers 2 and 3, Quay
Head, in the City and County of Bristol, Widow, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPICING AND
PREPARING MALT OR DISTILLED VINEGAR, RENDERING THE SAME BETTER SUITED FOR
PICKLING PURPOSES," to be as follows :-
This Invention consists in the use of the following ingredients which
I mix and comingle together by such a process, for instance, as that
hereafter described.

page_text: nutmeg, all or some.
PROCESS.
(1st.) Grind all the spices together, using pestle and mortar.
(2nd.) Place the ground spice in an earthenware or pewter vessel per-
forated with holes at the bottom. This vessel is then placed in another
earthenware or pewter vessel; the two vessels are then placed in a large
boiler containing boiling water. The vinegar is then poured on to the
spices in the inner vessel, and the water in the boiler being kept
simmering for about two hours, by degrees the vinegar drains through
the ground spices into the second vessel, drawing the whole strength out
of the spices into the vinegar. It is then filtered through an ordinary
filter and is fit för bottling, but it should be mixed with malt or dis-
tilled vinegar in the proportion of half a pint of the spiced vinegar to a
gallon of malt or distilled vinegar before it can be used for pickling.
The proportions of the ingredients I recommend to be used are these:-
To 100 gallons of vinegar 2 pounds of chilis, 2 pounds cloves, 1½ pounds
ginger, 1 pounds pimento, 1 pound mace, pound nutmeg. These
quantities may however be varied according to the circumstances of
the case.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Annetta Jane Honor Hutchings in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 14th July 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANNETTA
JANE HONOR HUTCHINGS, of Numbers 2 and 3, Quay Street, in the City
and County of Bristol, Widow, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Annetta Jane Honor Hutchings, Her special licence
that I, the said Annetta Jane Honor Hutchings, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Annetta Jane Honor

page_text: malt or distilled vinegar in the proportions of half a pint of the spiced
vinegar to a gallon of malt or distilled vinegar before it can be used for
pickling.
The proportions of the ingredients I recommend to be used are the
following:-To 100 gallons of vinegar, 2 pounds of chilis, 2 pounds
of cloves, 1 pounds ginger, 1 pounds pimento, 1 pound mace, pound
nutmeg, all avoirdupois weight. These proportions may, however, be
varied according to the circumstances of the case.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed or
carried out in practice, I hereby declare that I claim the herein-before
described Invention of "Improvements in Spicing and Preparing Malt
or Distilled Vinegar, rendering the same Better Suited for Pickling Pur-
poses," it being understood that I do not limit myself to precisely the
same details nor to the use of all the substances herein named colong
as substantial similarity is preserved.
In witness whercof, I, the said Annetta Jane Honor Hutchings,
have hereunto set my hand and scal, this Eighteenth day of
June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy three
Witness,
S. B. WARD,
39, Broad Street,
Bristol,
Solicitor.
A. J. H. HUTCHINGS. (L.S.)