Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Processes – Per se removal of food product from mold – container or...
Reexamination Certificate
1999-03-01
2001-03-13
Cano, Milton (Department: 1761)
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Processes
Per se removal of food product from mold, container or...
C426S391000, C426S512000, C426S518000, C426S503000, C249S117000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06200620
ABSTRACT:
SPECIFICATION
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a foodstuff mold. More particularly this invention concerns such a mold and a method making a heart-shaped foodstuff, for instance a cookie, praline, bread, or cake.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In order to produce a heart-shaped confection such as a cookie, cake, or praline, it is standard to pour a liquid dough or the like into a mold that is of heart shape seen from the top. Once the foodstuff is ready, either after baking or chilling, it is demolded and the mold can be reused.
Such a system is relatively inefficient. The molds take up quite a bit of space so only a limited number of them can be fit on an oven or refrigerator rack at one time. The result is a low production rate.
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an improved foodstuff mold.
Another object is the provision of an improved method of making a heart-shaped foodstuff.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A mold has according to the invention a pair of generally planar side walls having joined lower edges and extending upward from the lower edges at an acute angle to each other and a pair of generally triangular end walls crosswise to the side walls and forming therewith an elongated upwardly V-shaped cavity. A plurality of such side and end walls can be joined together at upper edges of the side walls to form a plurality of such cavities extending horizontally parallel to one another. Each cavity can be provided with at least one crosswise partition and a cover that is formed with a pair of parallel and downwardly open semicircular channels can be engaged over the mold for forming upwardly projecting bumps on risable dough cooked in the cavity.
A heart-shaped foodstuff is made according to the invention by first filling a V-shaped cavity of a mold having a pair of generally planar side walls having joined lower edges and extending upward from the lower edges at an acute angle to each other and a pair of generally triangular end walls crosswise to the side walls with a mass of risable dough. After some rising of the dough a longitudinal cut is formed along a top of the dough mass and the dough mass with the cut top is cooked so the dough rises and forms a pair of longitudinally extending bumps. Then the cooked dough mass is demolded and is cut into slices each of heart shape.
With this system, therefore, it is possible in effect to create a substantial number of the confections at one time. They are, in effect, cooked standing up in that the elongated workpiece they are cut from is of heart shape seen horizontally from the end. The result is an extremely cost-effective way to make heart-shaped cookies, cakes, breads, and the like.
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Cano Milton
Dauerman Sherry A.
Dubno Herbert
Wilford Andrew
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