Abridgments of the specifications relating to preservation of food / printed by order of the Commissioners of Patents.

Date:
1857
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Credit: Abridgments of the specifications relating to preservation of food / printed by order of the Commissioners of Patents. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    edible substances,” drying them, and “ enclosing them in vessels “ capable of being closed to exclude the air.” Earthenware ves¬ sels are preferred. If corks be used, “they are first to be dipped “ in melted bees’ wax,” and “the outside of the stopper when in “ the jar or bottle ” is to be coated “ with pitch mixed with pow- “ dered coke;” and if casks are used, the whole of the outside is coated similarly. “ Powdered coke may be used with great “ advantage in the interior of the packages.” Thus, a bottle is nearly filled with the meat or vegetable, the meat or vegetable covered with a piece of paper, and “ the space filled up with “ powdered coke,” taking care to prevent “ the coke getting to “ the meat.” [Printed, 3(7. See Repertory of Arts, vol. 19 {enlarged series), p. 239; London Journal {Newton's), vol. 40 {conjoined series), p.272; Mechanics’Magazine, vol. 56, p. 216 ; and Artizan, vol. 10, p. 113.] A.D. 1851, September 5.—N° 13,741. BORDEN, junior, Gail.—“ Combining the nutritive portions of “ flesh in a concentrated state with flour, farina, or meal, and “ drying and baking them in the form of biscuits, to render them “ more convenient for use, and for their better preservation.” The meat is macerated by heat or steam, strained through strainers ; the oil or fat skimmed off and mixed with the bread stuff, is dried in a chamber or oven. [Printed, 4(7. See London Journal {Newton’s), vol. 40 {conjoined series), p. 270; Mechanics’ Magazine, vol. 56, p. 217; and Artizan, vol. 10. p. 113.j A.D. 1851, December 8.—N° 13,845. BROOMAN, Richard Archibald.—The title of this invention is, “ Certain improved modes of applying electro-chemical action “ to manufacturing purposes.” And “ to preserve animal matter “ such as meat,” an antiseptic compound is formed in the meat itself. “ In setting up this electro-chemical action ” “ such acids “ and bases which, when united, form well-known antiseptic salts “ or compounds,” are chosen; for purifying syrup or oily matter acetate of magnesia is used, and the magnesia precipitated after¬ wards by free carbonic acid. [Printed, 6c7. See Mechanics’ Magazine, vol. 56, p. 478.]
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