An Improved Composition for Use as Food, and Method of Preparing the same.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 25th May, 1894
DI BUTICATION.
An Improved Composition for Use as Food, and Method of
Preparing the same.
I ERIK OLAF TAFLIN, Director, of Flemminggatan B, Stockholm in the
Kingdom of Sweden, 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 :-
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It is well known that hemp-seed contains constituents which, when introduced in
the organism, act very advantageously and in a health giving manner in many
illnesses, and above all preserve the health. The use of hemp-seed or hemp-seed-
extract as food has however met with difficulties depending no doubt principally
from the fact that the hemp-seed contains a bitter substance that in the opinion
of many persons imparts a rather disagreeable taste to the hemp-seed-extract.
The object of this invention is now to prepare a food that with the advantageous
properties of the hemp-seed-extract has at the same time an agreeable taste.
invention consists in mixing the hemp seed extract with a convenient malt
preparation and in certain cases also with cacao. By this there is a gain not only
of the above mentioned advantage that the taste is rendered more agreeable, but
also the product obtained will have a greater extent of effect, since not only the
properties and action of the hemp-seed-oil but also those of the malt preparation
and of the cacao assert their influence and this so that the special influence of the
constituents partly increased and partly modified. Malt and especially extract
of malt is, as is well known, already in itself a very healthy, appetizing and
digestible food. By mixing it with a suitable hemp-seed-preparation, a valuable
product is obtained, which has proved to have an advantageous influence on the
organism without involving any prejudices in other respects.
Both constituents are by themselves soft and digestible and the product obtained
by mixing them has the same properties. The addition of cacao, which, as is well
known, appertains to the stimulative foods and moreover is somewhat indigestible,
has for its purpose especially to give the product a taste of cacao, so that the
flavour of the mixture in the opinion of many may become more agreeable. The
hemp seed preparation intended for the purpose is prepared from crushed hemp
seed from which the extract is derived by use of petroleum ether. When preparing
malt for the present purpose, the drying must be effected at a low temperature,
50 to 60 degrees C., and the brining and malting must continue during a longer
term than is the case in common malt preparation, all in order that the greatest
possible quantity of malt-sugar may be obtained. Wheat and Indian-corn are the
most convenient kind of corn. Only part of the malt thus obtained is mashed and
treated with hot water for extracting the most digestible and active constituents,
and the solution is evaporated to the thickness of syrup. Another part of the malt
prepared in the above said manner is ground to meal.
From the constituents thus prepared, for instance, equal parts of hemp-seed-
extract and malt-extract may be used, which mixture is then mixed with so much
malt-meal, that the whole obtains the consistency of a dough, which is then pressed
into cakes and dried, whereupon the cakes are crushed or ground to meal or
powder.
When using cacao-powder as one of the constituents, the same may first be
mixed with malt-meal or the cacao-powder may be added alone simultaneously
with, or before, or after the same. In certain cases the malt-meal may be entirely
replaced by cacao-powder. Or if desired a powder may at first be prepared of
hemp-seed-extract, malt extract and finely ground malt, as above stated, which

page_text: powder is then mixed with a suitable quantity of cacao-powder. A powder of
hemp-seed-extract, malt-extract, and cacao may also be first prepared to which
finely divided malt is then added. It is suitable to mix first the hemp-seed-
extract with the malt-extract and then to add the dry constituents. To facilitate
the mixing of the hemp-seed extract with the malt extract the same may first be
dissolved in ether or spirit.
With regard to the proportions of the constituents used, they depend in an
essential degree on the effect aimed at. Thus, for instance equal quantities of
hemp seed-extract and the malt extract may, as above said, be used. However a
good food may also be obtained by using other proportions. To remove propor-
tionately to entirely the bitter taste, the hemp seed extract may be mixed up with
any quantity up to four times its quantity of the malt extract. To obtain a product
that may more speedily and strongly produce the effects aimed at when using
hemp-seed, the quantity of malt-extract may be reduced to a fourth of the quantity
of the hemp seed extract. The dry constituents (the malt-meal, the cacao-powder)
are added in such a quantity as is required to give the composition the consistency
of a dough, and their quantity depends consequently on for instance the degree of
evaporation of the malt-extract.
This food, composed of hemp-seed-extract and malt-extract with malt meal or
cacao-powder or both together in pulverized condition, is a very suitable substitute
for coffee, tea, chocolate etc. over which matters it has the advantage of being very
nutritious and digestible, and, if the quantity of cacao is not too great, of being
little or not at all stimulative. This food is especially preferable for children.
When to be used it is diluted with hot water or milk in the same way as the cacao-
powder, now commonly in use, but the same may also if desired be added to tea,
coffee and other drinks.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.
1. The manner of preparing a healthy, digestible and appetizing food, consisting
in mixing hemp seed-extract and malt-extract with finely ground malt, so that the
whole obtains the consistency of a dough, which when formed or pressed into cakes
or the like is dried and crushed or ground to meal or powder.
2. In the process described in above claim, the modification that instead of or
together with the malt-meal, cacao-powder is used which is mixed with the hemp-
seed-extract or the malt extract until the whole obtains the consistency of a dough,
which being eventually formed to cakes or such like is dried and then ground or
pulverized.
3. The improved composition for use as a food consisting of hemp-seed-extract,
malt extract, and either malt meal or cacao powder or both, substantially as set
forth.
R. HADDAN,
Of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agent to the Applicant.
R. HADDAN,
Of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agent to the Applicant.