A New or Improved Food Preparation and Process for the Manufacture thereof.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 14th Aug., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Food Preparation and Process for the Manufacture
thereof.
I, KARL FRANZ, of No. 8, Markt, Eilenburg in the Empire of Germany,
Confectioner, 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 aud by
the following statement :--
This invention relates to an infant's food preparation and to a process for the
manufacture thereof. This food when added to cow's milk greatly facilitates
digestion of the milk, especially in suckling babies, by causing the milk in becoming
coagulated in the stomach to separate in the form of fine flakes. By adding this
food to the cow's milk, the latter also acquires the nourishing power of mother's
milk.
These advantages are effected essentially by mixing roasted pearl barley with hot
liquid candy sugar, and then forming the same into suitable shapes.
The process is carried out in practice in the following manner, for example:
66 lbs. of pearl barley is roasted in suitable apparatus and is then mixed with 33 lbs.
of liquid candy sugar, whilst still hot. The warm mass is then formed into small
balls or is ground when it has become cool, and is pressed into a mould.
The preparation made according to the above described process is most suitable
for feeding infants, and by reason of its contained sugar it renders cow's milk very
much more tasty when mixed therewith. In order to render the preparation less
hygroscopic it may, after having been brought into any desired form, be coated with
a covering of milk-sugar or gelatine. The food is used as follows:- certain
quantity of the preparation is boiled in water (about one-quarter of a litre) down to
one-half of the volume of the water (one-eighth of a litre), and then mixing for very
small children about three parts of the same to one part of boiled cow's milk. With
increasing digestive power of the child gradually less and less of the food is added
to the milk till after about six months the child can readily digest pure cow's milk.
In the case of indisposition or illness (such as diarrhoea, rickets, scrofula, etc.) the
preparation would be used in greater quantities.
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 process for the manufacture of a food for infants, consisting as follows,
viz.-Roasted pearl barley is mixed with hot liquid candy sugar, and then the
mixture before, or after, cooling, is brought into any desired form with the object of
being added to cow's milk for the purpose of increasing the nutritive value of the
milk by causing the milk to coagulate in fine flakes in the stomach of the child and
thereby promoting digestion.
(2) The process for the manufacture of an infant's food substantially as
herein before described.

page_text: (3) The new or improved food preparation herein before described.
Dated this 24th day of March 1897.
OBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc. M. Inst. C. E., M. I. Mech. E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Associate Agent.