IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BREAD AND BISCUITS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Carpenter Pooley, of No. 8, George Street,
Bath, in the County of Somerset, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BREAD AND BISCUITS."

page_text: Bread made from flour to which ground malt has been added as above
described will be more casy of digestion, more nourishing, more
agreeable to the palate, and will keep sweet and moist much longer than
ordinary bread.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said John Carpenter Pooley in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 6th January 1875:
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
CARPENTER POOLEY, of No. 8, George Street, Bath, in the County of
Somerset, send greeting. -
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of July, in the year
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John Carpenter Pooley, Her
special license that I, the said John Carpenter Pooley, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Carpenter Pooley, my exccutors, 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, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BREAD AND BISCUITS,"
upon. the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Carpenter
Pooley, my executors or administrators, 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 John Carpenter Pooley, 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 thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in the manufacture of bread and biscuits by

page_text: the use of wheat flour together with malt flour. I prefer to use the
malt in the proportion of about one ounce malt flour to one pound
wheat flour.
The malt and wheat may, if desired, be mixed together before grinding,
but I prefer that they should be ground separately.
I can make bread with a mixture of wheat flour and malt flour in the
usual way, without any change in the manufacturing processes, whether
fermented or unfermented, but I find the following to be the best
plan.
In the manufacture of, fermented bread I make the first " sponge " in
the usual way from wheat flour only. I then take the malt flour and
mix it with sufficient water, and then carefully heat the mixture in a
suitable vessel, stirring it all the time, and continue the application of
heat until the mixture first thickens, and afterwards liquifies again. I
then cease the application of heat, and when the mixture is sufficiently
cooled, I mix it with the "sponge," then add the remaining portion of
wheat flour and a little salt, then thoroughly incorporate and knead the
whole in the usual way. It is then ready for the oven.
In the manufacture of unfermented bread I follow the same process
as to the mixing and heating the malt flour and water together in the
manner described for making fermented bread.
Bread made from flour of wheat and malt as above described will be
more easy of digestion, more nourishing, more agreeable to the palate,
and will keep sweet and moist much longer than ordinary bread.
What I claim is the manufacture of bread and biscuits from malt and
wheat flour, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Carpenter Pooley, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of
December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.