A New or Improved Method of Treating and Preparing Tomatoes and Blending the same for Infusion together with Coffee, Cocoa, and other Substances for which such Prepared Tomatoes are applicable.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 25th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 27th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Method of Treating and Preparing Tomatoes
and Blending the same for Infusion together with Coffee, Cocoa,
and other Substances for which such Prepared Tomatoes are
applicable.
I HENRY AMBROSE SNELLING, of St. Georges House, 6 and 8 Eastcheap, in
the City of London, Wholesale Tea Dealer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a new manufacture viz. a preparation of tomatoes for
infusion and blending with coffee, cocoa, tea and the like, and to the method of so
treating and preparing tomatoes and blending the same for infusion or decoction
together with coffee, cocoa, tea and other substances, the said infusion or decoction
being intended to be used as a beverage in the same way as coffee is used, and such
prepared tomatoes may either be used alone, or preferably, blended together with
coffee, cocoa, tea or the like.
According to my invention I dry tomatoes, preferably previously sliced, until
the superfluous moisture is removed and they are fit for roasting.
The dried product, reduced to pieces of convenient size, is then roasted, which
may be done substantially in the same manner as coffee is usually roasted, or
otherwise, and ground, and may then be used for the production of an infusion, or
preferably may be blended with coffee, cocoa, tea, chicory, or the like, or some of
them according to taste.
For use with tea it is sometimes advantageous to make the mixture of it with
tea into compressed blocks.
These preparations possess distinct advantages and special dietic properties and
are invaluable to certain classes of invalids.
For the general public my preparation blended with coffee affords a beverage
in which any objectionable properties of the latter are neutralized or masked in
such wise as to remove, to a great extent, the objections which are often felt to
coffee.
Dated this 29th day of April 1891.
NEWNHAM BROWNĘ,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Method of Treating and Preparing Tomatoes
and Blending the same for Infusion together with Coffee, Cocoa,
and other Substances for which such Prepared Tomatoes aré
applicable.
I HENRY AMBROSE SNELLING, of St. Georges House, 6 and 8 Eastcheap, in
the City of London, Wholesale Tea Dealer 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 :-
My invention relates to a new manufacture viz.: a preparation of tomatoes, for
infusion and blending with coffee, cocoa, and the like and to the method of so
treating and preparing tomatoes, and blending the same for infusion, or decoction
together with coffee, cocoa and other substances, the said infusion, or decoction,
being intended to be used as a beverage in the same way as coffee is used, and such
prepared tomatoes may either be used alone, or preferably blended together with
coffee, cocoa, or the like.

page_text: According to my invention I dry tomatoes, preferably previously sliced, unti¹
the superfluous moisture is removed and they are fit for roasting.
The dried product reduced to pieces, of convenient size, is then roasted, which
may be done substantially in the same manner as coffee is usually roasted, or other-
wise, and ground and may then be used for the production of an infusion, or,
preferably, may be blended with coffee, cocoa, or the like, or some of them,
according to taste.
These preparations possess distinct advantages and special dietetic properties and
are invaluable to certain classes of invalids.
For the general public my preparation blended with coffee affords a beverage
in which any objectionable properties of the latter are neutralised, or masked, in
such wise as to remove, to a great extent, the objections which are often felt to
coffee.
In carrying out my invention on a commercial scale I find it convenient to dry
sliced tomatoes in the apparatus known as "Davidson's Sirocco," the operation
being conducted rather slowly so as to dry the pieces of tomato evenly and
thoroughly throughout, and preferably, at temperature of about 300° Fahrenheit.
The time occupied in the process varying according to the ripeness and condition
of the tomatoes, and other circumstances.
For this purpose the pieces of tomato should all be, as nearly as practicable, of
equal thickness, say about a quarter of an inch thick, more or less.
After drying I reduce the size of the pieces, breaking or cutting them, so that
they resemble coffee berries in size, and I then place them in, preferably, a revolving
cylindrical coffee-roaster, and roast them until they assume about the colour of
roasted coffee and the proper texture, and I sometimes add previous to or during
the roasting a small quantity of butter, olive oil or the like, whereby the quality of
the product is improved and the roasting facilitated.
The product is allowed to cool and is then ground in a coffee-mill, or the like,
either alone or together with coffee with which it mixes and blends very thoroughly.
In blending the product with cocoa, I find it best to grind the tomato rather
finely and then feed it into the cocoa-mill with the unground cocoa, or the
ground tomatoes may be mixed with the cocoa powder.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :
1. Preparing tomatoes and blending the same for infusion with coffee, cocoa,
and the like substantially as hereinbefore described and set forth.
2. The new articles of manufacture, tomato-coffee, and tomato-cocoa, constituted
and prepared, substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 25th day of January 1892.
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D. A. DELLING.