AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BREAD, PASTRY AND OTHER FARINACEOUS FOOD
Year: 1884

page_text: We, ROBERT HERRON of 32 Westmoreland Street in the City and County of.
Dublin, Baker and Confectioner, and RICHARD EDWARD DONOVAN of 7 Ormond
Road in the City and County of Dublin, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature
of our invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BREAD, PASTRY
AND OTHER FARINACEOUS FOOD" to be as follows :-
The starch contained in flour is not digested unless it be converted into some
soluble form of dextrin. This invention relates to means of effecting this con-
version before the farinaceous food made from flour is eaten, the object being to
relieve the stomachs, particularly of children or invalids, from this portion of the
digestive process.
For this purpose, we convert the starch more or less into dextrin before the flour
is made up into loaves or other forms of food, using, for effecting the conversion,
any of the well known processes, such as heating, or treatment with acid or
diastase. This conversion may be carried so far as to produce grape sugar, which
may be used in admixture with ordinary flour. Usually, however, we prefer
simply to heat the flour sufficiently to convert most of its starch into dextrin, and
then to use the flour so treated or a mixture of it with ordinary flour in making
bread, pastry or other articles of food.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants,
28, Southampton Buildings,
⚫ London, W.C.
.

page_text: We, ROBERT HERRON of 32 Westmoreland Street in the City and County of
'Dublin, Baker and Confectioner, and RICHARD EDWARD DONOVAN of 7 Ormond
Road in the City and County of Dublin, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature
of our invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BREAD, PASTRY
AND OTHER FARINACEOUS FOODS and in what manner the same is to be per-
-formed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
F
The starch contained in flour is not digested unless it be converted into some
soluble form of dextrin. This invention relates to means of effecting this con-
version before the farinaceous food made from flour is eaten, the object being to
relieve the stomachs, particularly of children or invalids, from this portion of the
digestive process.
For this purpose, we convert the starch more or less into dextrin before the flour
is made up into loaves or other forms of food, using, for effecting the conversion,
any of the well known processes, such as heating, or treatment with acid or
diastase. This conversion may be carried so far as to produce grape sugar which
may be used in admixture with ordinary flour. Usually, however, we prefer
simply to heat the flour sufficiently to convert most of its starch into dextrin, and
then to use the flour so treated or a mixture of it with ordinary flour in making
bread, pastry or other articles of food.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and in what manner the same. is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
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The manufacture of bread, pastry and other farinaceous food from flour partly
dextrinated or from a mixture of dextrinated with undextrinated flour, substantially
as herein described.