A NEW OR T AAR OUDOMAN
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Philippe Roehrig, of Paris, Empire of France, and
of 32, Essex Street, Strand, Middlesex, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
T
AAR OUDOMAN
"
Sealed the 18th September 1855, and dated the 19th March 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Philippe Roehrig at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th March 1855.
I, PHILIPPE ROEHRIG, of Paris, Empire of France, and of 32, Essex Street,
Strand, Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A NEW OR IMPROVED ALIMENTARY SUBSTANCE" to be as follows:-
This novel alimentary substance, which is particularly intended for cooking
or preparing pottages, soups, and broths, consists of purified or refined blood
of all animals used for human food, of boiled rice, of feculae of potatoes or
mashed potatoes, and flour; these various ingredients being thoroughly mixed
with each other and any other suitable substance. As to the proportions in
which these substances are mixed, they depend upon the taste of the consumer,
but it will generally be found preferable to let the rice be in excess. The blood
is. refined or purified by boiling it at a gentle heat with an admixture of
sulphate of soda and of creeping or wild thyme for removing the bilious parts
of the blood; or it may be refined in any other suitable way. The boiling
process is continued until the blood gets thick, when a paste or dough is made

page_text: with it and the above ingredients, from which biscuits or cakes of any suitable
shape are then moulded and baked for direct consumption as ordinary biscuits,
or for being used as a component part of other dishes, pottages, etc.
.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Philippe Roehrig in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th September 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PHILIPPE
ROEHRIG, of Paris, Empire of France, and of 32, Essex Street, Strand,
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Philippe Roehrig, Her special licence that I, the said Philippe Rochrig,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Philippe Roehrig, 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,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
ALIMENTARY SUBSTANCE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Philippe Roehrig, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
'seal, 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 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 Philippe Roehrig, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This novel alimentary substance, which is particularly intended for cooking
or preparing pottages, soups, and broths, consists of purified or refined blood
of all eatable animals, of boiled rice, of feculae of potatoes or mashed potatoes,
and flour; these various meridients being thoroughly mixed with each other
and any other suitable substance. As to the proportions in which these
substances are mixed, they will depend on the taste of the consumers, but it

page_text: will generally be found preferable to let the rice be in excess.
The blood is
refined or purified by boiling it at a gentle heat with an admixture of sulphate
of soda and of creeping or wild thyme, for removing the bilious part of the
blood; or it may be refined in any other suitable way. The boiling process is
continued until the blood gets thick, when a paste or dough is made with it,
& the above ingredients form biscuits or cakes of any suitable shape, which
are then moulded and baked for direct consumption as ordinary biscuits, or
for being used as a component part of other dishes, pottages, or alimentary
eatables.
The modifications which I am able to introduce in the composition of biscuits
for soups are the following:--
1°. I cause the blood of oxen or calves to undergo a process of filtering by
means of a filter, of a conical or any other form, about 6 feet high. In this
filter I put several layers of animal black in grains, which I separate from
each other by a layer of greasy wool. I cause to pass through it the blood
that has been beaten before & mixed with animal black in powder, and I
then take the filtered blood in order to put it into a boiler after having it
salted slightly; I cause it to thicken by stirring & submitting it to a heat
of 145-160 Fahrenheit, & I add to it its weight of rice flour. After
having made that mixture I put the whole on a table, & I add to it as
much wheaten flour as rice flour added before, in order to give to the paste a
convenient consistance. I next cause it to undergo the same baking process
as for common paste.
2º. I take seconds of beef or other meat (such as parts of head, legs,
intestines, &c., which I put into a boiler together with salt, vegetables, &
such spices as are required. I cause them to melt by steam, & I take the
gelatine thus obtained to mix it with an equal quantity of purified &
thickened blood at 160° Fahrenheit. I produce the mixtion of rice &
wheaten flour, as well as the baking and the making into tablets, in the same
way as for the first modification; on the whole, the gelatine & blood form
by equal parts one-third of the whole mixture, whilst the rice and wheaten
flour form the two other thirds.
3°. The third modification intends to suppress the blood used in the pre-
ceding case, by the following means:-I take calf ruffles, which I reduce into
gelatine, as before; I use that gelatine to moisten the rice & wheaten flour,
of which in that case two-thirds are taken, whilst only one-third is taken up
by the gelatine. The baking takes place as for common paste.
I claim, first, the composition of a new alimentary substance, forming the
base of a new soup.

page_text: Second, the use in its formation of the substances mentioned before, viz
blood, gelatine, boiled rice, rice, & wheaten flour, or feculae of potatoes, used
in the said combinations and proportions.
Third, the formation of biscuits or, tablets, by baking that substance, and
which produce by rasping them a semolina for soups..
In witness whereof, I, the said Philippe Roehrig, have hereunto set
my hand and seal; this Thirteenth day of September, in the year of our
... Lord One thousand eight hundred & fifty-five."
PHILIPPE ROEḤRIG. (L.s.)