AN IMPROVED EDIBLE VEGETABLE PREPARATION 'CALLED 'EUPOO1,' AND THE MODE OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
Year: 1840

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, greeting.
J, CHARLES HANDFORD, of High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Tea
Dealer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-first day of September, in the fourth year of Her reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said Charles Handford, my exors, adiñors, and
assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Charles Handford, my exors, adññors, and assigns, and such others as
I, the said Charles Handford, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland; called England, Her Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all Her said Majesty's Colonies and Plan-
tations abroad, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED EDIBLE VEGETABLE PREPARATION
'CALLED 'EUPOO1,' AND THE MODE OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Charles Handford,
shall particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after-the date of

page_text: the said in part recited Letters Patent, as, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Handford, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention,
and the manner of performing the same, are fully specified and described in
the following description thereof, that is to say :-
My said inproved edible vegetable preparation called eupooi consists of
an extract of chicory obtained in the following manner :-I take chicory root
as it is imported, roast it in the same manner as coffee is roasted, & chop or
grind it into pieces of about the size of pepercorns. I next mix the ground
or chopped chicory with water, and set it on a fire to boil, allowing to each
pound of chicory about two quarts of water; and, after it has boiled about
three hours, I draw off the liquid and strain it through flannel or other suit-
able bags. I next place the strained liquor in a steam or hot-water bath,
and evaporate it till it becomes of the consistency of honey, when it is in a
state fit for use, and forms the preparation to which I have given the name
of eupooi. Chicory, as it has been hitherto commonly ground along with
coffee, or added to it in a ground state, has served only as an indifferent sub-
stitute for so much, coffee, and when they are boiled or infused together in
that state the resulting liquid is always of a thick and opaque appearance, and
difficult of clarification but when chicory is added to coffee in the state of.
the concentrated extract called eupooi, it affords a beautifully clear solution, and
greatly improves the coffee both in respect of strength and flavour. The cupooi
may be used with the coffee in the proportion of one part of eupooi to three of
coffee, and put into the biggin or pot either before or after infusing or boiling.
And such my said Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
entirely new, and never before used within that part of Her said Majesty's
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, Her Domi-
nion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, or in any of Her said
Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, I do hereby declare this to-be.
my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said
Specification doth comply, in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise,
with the proviso in the said herein-before recited Letters Patent contained;
wherefore I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said
Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Handford, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
CHARLES (L.S.) HANDFORD.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twentieth day of March, in
the year
of our Lord 1841, the aforesaid Charles Handford came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-one.