A LIQUOR SUITABLE FOR MANUFACTURING BEVERAGES, AND FOR CULINARY PURPOSES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George White, of 34, Dowgate Hill, in the City
of London, for the Invention of "A LIQUOR SUITABLE FOR MANUFACTURING
BEVERAGES, AND FOR CULINARY PURPOSES."-A communication from Messrs.
Fontaine & Co., of Paris.
Sealed the 19th November 1858, and dated the 22nd May 1858:
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George White at tlie
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd May 1858.
I, GEORGE WHITE, of 34, Dowgate Hill, in the City of London, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "A LIQUOR SUITABLE FOR MANU-
FACTURING BEVERAGES AND FOR CULINARY PURPOSES," a communication. from
Messrs. Fontaine & Co., of Paris, to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in mixing in suitable proportions, tartric acid with
lemon, orange, neroli, or other suitable essential oils, with or without the
addition of sugar or other saccharine matter, so as to form a concentrated
liquor which may serve for preparing instantly refreshing lemonades or other
beverages, by being mixed in suitable quantities with water, wine, tea, or
other drinks, or may serve also as a condiment for culinary purposes.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George White in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
November 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WHITE, of 34, Dowgate Hill, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the
year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said George White, Her special licence that I, the said George
White; iny executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said George White, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "A LIQUOR
SUITABLE FOR MANUFACTURING BEVERAGES, AND FOR CULINARY PURPOSES," com-
municated to me Messrs. Fontaine and Co., of, Paris, upon the condition,
(amongst others), that I, the said George White, my executors or, adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly 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 George White, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The Invention consists in forming by means of tartaric acid dissolved in any
suitable solvent, such as water, spirits of wine, or others, a liquor, to which
the desired flavour is imparted by mixing therewith the required quantity of
any suitable essential oil, sucli, for instance, as the oils of lemon or orange
peel, neroli, or others, with or without, the addition of juices or extracts from
fruit, and to which liquor may further be added or not any suitable quantity of
cane, grape, beetroot, or other suitable sugar or saccharine matter, thus
forming a concentrated liquor...which may serve for instantly preparing
refreshing or other beverages by being mixed in suitable quantities with water,
wine, rum, arrack, tea, or other drinks, or which may be employed as a con-

page_text: diment for culinary purposes. The composition of the liquor, though having
constantly tartaric acid combined with an essential oil for its base, may
be varied in any suitable manner; various of these compositions having been
found more particularly agreeable to the taste, and having met with great
favour from the public, I will describe them more particularly.
1°, Algerian citronnade is composed of about 8 oz. troy of tartaric acid,
dissolved in about 1.76 pints of soft water, to which is then added about
.10 pennyweights of lemon oil, dissolved in alcohol.
2°, Algerian orangeade is formed of the same ingredients as the Algerian
citronnade, with the exception that instead of the lemon oil an alcoholic extract
of orange peel is employed.
3°, Raspberry lemonade is composed of 8 oz. troy of tartaric acid, dissolved
in about 1-76 pints of juice of raspberries, to which is then added about
10 pennyweights of essential oil of lemon or orange peel dissolved in alcohol.
4º, Orange flower lemonade is composed of 8 oz. troy of tartaric acid, dissolved
in about 1.76 pints of orange flower water.
What I call Algerian sirups are formed of the above mentioned or other
similar liquors to which a suitable quantity of cane or other sugar or other
suitable saccharine inatters are added; thus, for instance,-.
5°, Algerian lemon sirup is composed of about 17 pints of sugar sirup, at
a strength of about 31°, to which is added about 6 pints of the above indicated
liquor No. 1, whereas,―
6°, Algerian orange sirup, and 7° raspberry lemonade sirup, are composed
as No. 5, with the exception of mixing with the sirup, instead of the liquor
No. 1, the liquors No. 2 or No. 3.
It will be understood from the above examples that any desired flavour may
be imparted to the liquor by means of suitable essential oils, with or without
the admixture of the extracts or juices of fruit, while also the same may
receive any required degree of sweetness, so as to make the liquor form a sort
of sirup, which liquor or sirup may then serve for preparing instantly refreshing
or other beverages by mixing it in suitable quantities with water, wine, rum,
arrack, tea, coffee, or any other drink, with or without the addition of sugar,
or saccharine matters; or the liquor may be made use of for culinary purposes
by being mixed as a condiment with sauces, soups, meat, or other similar
eatables.
Ilaving thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into practical effect, I declare that what I claim as the
Invention consists in the manufacture of a liquor having for its base a solution
of tartaric acid, combined with any suitable essential oil or oils, with or

page_text: without the addition of the juices or extracts of fruit and of saccharine
matters, which liquor is to serve for manufacturing refreshing or other
beverages, or may be employed as a condiment for culinary purposes.
In witness whereof, I; the said' George White, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of November, in. the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.