IMPROVEMENTS OF SOUP FARINA
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Heinson Huch, of Brunswick, Germany,
Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS OF SOUP FARINA."
Scaled the 1st July 1873, and dated the 24th January 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Heinson Huch
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 24th January 1873.
I, EDWARD HEINSON HUCH, of Brunswick, Germany, Merchant, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS OF
SOUP FARINA," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements on soup farina. I take
extract of meat (extractum carnis), I add to it a little salt and water
for dissolving it, and then I add by little and little flour, wheaten flour
or flour of oats, lentils, peas, beans, or any other farina, grinding the
material together to mix them well. The farina absorbs entirely the
humidity in the extract and forms a preparation which can be preserved
for a very long time.
When required for use it is only necessary to add water to the soup
farina and to boil it during five minutes and you will have a very

page_text: nutritive and tasteful soup, containing all that is necessary for the
healthful nourishment of mankind, and which is at the same time
cheaper than any known food.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Heinson Huch in the Great Scal Patent
Office on the 23rd July 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
HEINSON HUCHI, of Brunswick, Germany, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edward Heinson Huch, Her special
license that I, the said Edward Heinson Huch, my exccutors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Heinson Huch,
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, excrcise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
OF SOUP FARINA," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Edward Heinson Huch, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Heinson Hluch, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention and in what manner the samo
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is to manufacture a soup farina. This I.
effect by mixing farina with extract of meat, by which a soup farina is

page_text: obtained quite ready for use, and only requiring the necessary amount
of water joined to it to produce an excellent soup. I first grind peas,
beans, lentils, wheat, oats, or other grain into a coarse meal, which is
afterwards submitted to the action of steam. The meal has afterwards
added to it salt and extract of meat in the proportion of about 10 lbs.
of meal to 1lb. salt, and 1 to 1½ lbs. extract of meat. The whole is
mixed together for about half an hour in suitable mixing machinery
and is then ready for use, and may be preserved for a very long time.
When required for use it is only necessary to add water to the soup
farina and to boil it, say for about 5 or 10 minutes, and you will then
have a very nutritive and tasteful soup, containing all that is necessary
for healthful nourishment, and which at the same time is cheaper than
any known food.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Heinson Huch, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, this Eighteenth day of July, in
the year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-