AN IMPROVED DODDADARION OF BISCUIT AND OTHER PASTRY AND BREAD
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Hickisson, of 75, Southgate Road, in the
County of Middlesex, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
DODDADARION OF BISCUIT AND OTHER PASTRY AND BREAD."
Sealed the 10th September 1867, and dated the 16th March 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Hickisson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 16th
March 1867.
I, JAMES HICKISSON, of 75, Southgate Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Ax
IMPROVED PREPARATION OF BISCUIT AND OTHER PASTRY AND BREAD," to be as
follows:-
The object of my improved preparation of biscuit and other pastry and
bread is to give thereto in addition to their ordinary nutritious character that
of a tonic and an invigorator by the admixture of a small quantity of ammonia
citrate of iron together with quinine and rhubarb. The proportions which
I have found to answer are 20 grains of the ammonia citrate of iron, and
4 grains of quinine to 16 ounces of paste or dough from flour, rice, arrowroot,
sago, or other grain or root; to these may be sometimes added a small
quantity of rhubarb, but these proportions or combinations may be varied.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Hickisson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th September 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
HICKISSON, of 75, Southgate Road, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
James Hickisson, Her special licence that I, the said James Hickisson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James
Hickisson, 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 "AN IMPROVED PREPARATION OF
BISCUIT AND OTHER PASTRY AND BREAD," upon the condition (amongst others) that
1, the said James Hickisson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Hickisson, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
The improved preparation of biscuit and other pastry and bread consists in
the application thereto of ammonia, citrate of iron, also quinine, and some-
times, if desired, a little rhubarb, which may be flavored with spice, essence
of orange, or other matter and sugar; and the object of the Invention is to
give to the biscuit or other pastry and bread, in addition to its ordinary nutri-
tious character, that of a tonic and an invigorator.

page_text: Dough
Ammonia citrate of iron
Quinine
Butter
14 lbs.
84 grains.
84
"
lb.
1 lb.
Loaf sugar
These proportions may however be considerably varied, and when desired the
rhubarb will be added.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Hickisson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
JAMES HICKISSON. (L.B.)