IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF JUICES OF MEAT OR OTHER ARTICLES OF FOOD OR REMEDIAL AGENTS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills, of 35, South-
ampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF JUICES OF MEAT
OR OTHER ARTICLES OF FOOD OR REMEDIAL AGENTS."-A communication
from abroad by Mann Satterwhite Valentine, of Richmond, in the
State of Virginia United States of America.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Benjamin Joseph Barnard
Mills at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition
and Declaration, on the 11th April 1871, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS, of 35, Southampton Buildings, in the County
of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE PREPARATION OF JUICES OF MEAT OR OTHER ARTICLES OF FOOD OR REMEDIAL
AGENTS," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my execu-

page_text: and have made solemn Declaration that it is a communication to me
from abroad by Mann Satterwhite Valentine, of Richmond, in the State
of Virginia, United States of America.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills,
do hereby declare that the following Complete Specification, under my
hand and seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say:
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In order to obtain from meat, or other articles of food, or remedial
agents, the nutricious juices or valuable constituents in the most
desirable condition to adapt them for absorption and nutriment, a
moderate heat which will not coagulate the albuminous matter is
applied to the material for a sufficient period to permit a ready and
thorough separation of the desired juices from the grosser or non-
nutricious parts, the said juices being then removed by straining or
pressing them out of the said matter. Water or other suitable solvent
may be used in applying the process to farinaceous or other dry food,
but with meat this is not required.
To obtain the nutricious juices of meat the process is as follows :-
Take one pound of lean beef, free from fat, and grind it well in a meat
grinder, sprinkle on the meat ten grains of table salt and mix it in the
mass, giving the salt fifteen minutes to penetrate the meat and come
in contact with the liquids contained, season with Cayenne pepper,
somewhat more than one would use at table; then put the beef in a
warm pan on a good steady fire, either with or without the intervention
of a water bath, briskly and uninterruptedly stir it to and fro over the
fire that the entire mass shall be equally heated at a temperature below
140°, the point of coagulation of albumen. When the meat has assumed
a greyish hue throughout the mass, which happens in from five to ten
minutes according to the state of the fire, it has then reached its highest
point in the process, and is ready to yield up its liquids, which presently
ooze out into the pan; then remove the pan from the fire and with
expedition turn its contents of meat and liquids into a strong cloth bag
held over a bowle, and compactly gathering the folds of the bag upon
the meat proceed to apply such pressure as will express all the liquids
contained in the meat out into the bowl, and there is left behind in the

page_text: bag a hard cake of tough exhausted flesh. In from one to two minutes
time the liquid will settle and a small deposit fall to the bottom of the
bowl, pour off and let it cool, when cool skim any grease that may have
formed at the top. This new meat preparation is termed "the germ of
life or nutritive principle." The quantity of this liquid that a pound of
beef yields by this process will vary according to the quality of the beef,
the portion of the animal used, and the contingencies of time and
weather, say, from five and a half to six and a half ounces.
:
From the above description of this mode of treating meat, the
manner of employing the Invention to obtain the nutricious elements of
farinacious or other food will be readily understood, but in the case
of dry food or any food which does not contain sufficient fluid when
subjected to a moderate heat, water or other suitable solvent is used to
permit the separation of the nutricious matter by the warming and
straining or expressing process.
It is not intended to limit the claim to any particular product or
material, but it is intended to apply the process to any article to which it
may be well adapted. It has been applied with good effect to the pre-
paration of corn starch for children and invalids. By evaporation the
various solutions may be preserved in a semi-fluid form. Preparations
produced by this new method differ from what has been heretofore known
in this important particular in articles of food, whether cooked in the
usual way, or prepared by condensing, or by the formation of essences or
extracts for the use of the sick, or for keeping, or for transportation; the
albuminous element of the food is administered in a coagulated state and
requires re-assimilation, whilst by my process the important histogenetic
principles, as well as the other elements of nutrition held in solution,
such as the organic and inorganic extractives, and the inorganic com-
pounds found in the blood are all presented to the stomach uncoagulated
and ready for immediate absorption.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention and the mode
in which the same is carried into effect, I would have it understood that
what I claim is,―
First. The method described for obtaining the juices of meat or other
matter in a condition ready for assimilation and nutrition by expressing
the said juices after the material has been subjected to a moderate heat,
so as to avoid coagulating the albumen.

page_text: Second. The new article of food herein described consisting of the
juices of meat or other matter expressed after the application of moderato
hcat such as will not coagulate the albumen.
In witness whereof, I, tho said Benjamin Joseph Barnard Mills, •
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of April, 5
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
onc.
Witness,
FRED. HARRIS,
Patent Agent,
35, Southampton Buildings,
London.
B. J. B. MILLS. (L.S.)