Title: Process for the manufacture of a cooked fibrous restructured meat product

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1. A process for the manufacture of a cooked fibrous restructured meat product comprising:

i. extruding a meat comminute in the form of a flat extrudate having the fibers thereof generally aligned in the direction of said extrusion;

ii. interposing said extrudate, before cooking, between two layers of heat-stable absorbent crepe paper which are capable of holding the liquors released from said extrudate during cooking, at least one of said layers having a grained surface in intimate contact with said extrudate;

iii. cooking said extrudate to produce a temperature of at least 65.degree.C therein while so interposed between and in intimate contact with said layers whereby said crepe paper layers remain separable from the cooked product and, upon separation therefrom, leave the surface thereof with a grained appearance resembling that of a slice of meat cut in the direction of the muscle fibers; and

iv. removing said separable layers from said cooked product to form a final cooked product.

2. A process as defined in claim 1 further comprising incorporating about 5 to about 20% by weight of spun protein fiber into said comminute before said extrusion.

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Inventors: Hawkins, Arthur Ernest (Bedford, EN)

Application Number: 551801
Filing Date: 1975-02-20
Publication_date: 1976-01-20
Assignee: Lever Brothers Company (New York, NY)
Primary Class(es): 426/645 426/513, 426/516, 426/646
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

2423964	Jul, 1947	Coffman	426/315.
3482998	Dec, 1969	Carroll et al.	426/646.
3495992	Feb, 1970	De For	426/412.
3664849	May, 1972	Autry	426/92.

Other Refs: 592,590

Sep, 1947	UK

Primary Examiner: Lord, Hyman
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Farrell, Esq.; James J.