Abstract: A frozen french fried potato product for heating in a toaster or oven, is provided. The product is made from a cohesive dough which is prepared by admixing cooked potatoes with additives comprising water, a binding agent, cellulose, and dehydrated potato flakes or granules. The dough is extruded into said product which is fried in cooking oil and frozen.

Abstract: Potato solids having present substantially intact potato cells are provided in a dough which is cooked and formed into pieces having a moisture content of from about 9 to about 13 percent by weight and the pieces fried.

Abstract: A fried, starch containing snack product is produced wherein tempeh is included as an essential ingredient.

Abstract: A frozen toaster French fried potato product made from a dough comprising a potato base, water, oil, and a high-amylose product, the oil and high amylose product being present in an amount sufficient to give controlled oil absorption, to give shape retention during frying, and to prevent any significant exudation of oil from said product when toasted, and the method of making such product as hereinafter described.

Abstract: A dried product and the process of producing same including kneading dough of known composition, adding water thereto, passing the dough through a series of rollers wherein each succeeding roller moves faster than its preceding roller to form a moist film on the last roller, removing the film, drying the so removed film and dividing the removed dry film into flakes.

Abstract: A method of producing French fried potatoes from dehydrated potato granules or flakes with a binder comprising an amylose starch component and a cold-water-dispersible starch or gum component. The dehydrated potatoes and binder are combined with water to produce a dough which is formed into a desired shape and deep fat fried to produce French fried potatoes.

Abstract: A yeast leavened dough product, such as an English muffin, having a high and uniform level of porosity contains as an additive therefor, for each 100 parts by weight of flour, from about 0.20 to 5.0 parts by weight of rice flour and from about 0.06 to 1.0 part by weight of fumaric acid.

Abstract: A process for preparing an edible potato dough suitable for preparing French fried potatoes which closely resemble French fried potatoes prepared directly from fresh, raw potatoes, in which the unpeeled potatoes are first baked, then peeled, riced and formed into a potato dough.

Abstract: Legume chips for use as a snack food are prepared by first mixing an acidified legume powder with regular legume powder. Water is added to the mixture to form a paste, which is extruded into thin sheets. Bite-size pieces are cut from the thin sheet and are par-fried in edible oil to obtain a desired color, texture, flavor, and moisture content.

Abstract: An elongate potato product simulating a French fry and provided with a plurality of serrated, longitudinal ridges alternating with longitudinal valleys, is formed by extrusion of a potato mix through a suitable die. The serrations of the ridges provide a multiplicity of individual projections more or less resembling spicules, which are completely exposed to hot fat during initial frying of the product prior to freezing and to applied heat during reconstitution of the frozen product. This results in French fries of superior quality. The spicules are a result of proper consistency of the mix and configuration of the extrusion die.

Abstract: This invention relates to the continuous rehydration of dehydrated potato solids and potato mixtures to form first an homogeneous slurry which sets to a dough and the forming or shaping of this slurry or dough into products which are suitable for deep frying. The process is characterized by the improved quality of the products produced by it, and by the novel methods by which the potato solids are rehydrated and shaped or formed into pieces suitable for deep frying. The dehydrated potato solids can be either flour, flakes or granules. The dehydrated potato mixtures can be any combination of additives, binders, fillers, gums, texturizing agents and potato solids, etc., in which the potato portion constitutes at least 50% of the mixture by weight, as either flour, flakes or granules. The products can be any type of potato product, but in particular, they are deep fried potato products such as chips or French-fries.

Abstract: A potato chip product and process wherein a dough is prepared from dehydrated cooked potatoes and water and subsequently fried. The dough has an iodine index of from about 0.01 to about 6 and a lipid content of from 0 to about 6%, by weight.

Abstract: A potato based food snack is prepared by mixing cooked potato solids with water and ungelatinized starch to form a dough having between about 40 percent and about 50 percent solids by weight, forming the dough into pieces, and frying the pieces in hot cooking oil. The dough contains a sufficient amount of free available gelatinized starch to cause the pieces to expand at least about 1.6 times their original dimension upon frying such that they produce a potato snack product having a porous internal structure encased in a dense exterior layer of substantially reduced porosity.

Abstract: Process for making a reconstitutable dehydrated, cooked potato piece or strip. Raw potatoes are cooked and a dough of separated potato cells is formed therefrom. A small quantity of the cells are ruptured to release their starch contents. The released starch alone or in combination with additional raw starch which is gelatinized after mixing with the dough are used to give the dough an adhesive character which will permit the eventually dried potato pieces to be reconstituted in water without loss of piece identity. After rupture of the potato cells the dough is maintained in a heated condition until formed into strips or pieces of the desired size after which they are dried. An alternative process employs raw starch as the principle means for obtaining the desired adhesive character in the dried potato pieces. In the alternative process the dough is processed and formed into the desired pieces or strips without heating and thereafter the raw starch is gelatinized by application of heat.

Abstract: A method of producing French fried potatoes from dehydrated potato granules or flakes with a binder comprising an amylose starch component and a cold-water-dispersible starch or gum component. The dehydrated potatoes and binder are combined with water to produce a dough which is formed into a desired shape and deep fat fried to produce French fried potatoes.

Abstract: A method and a product produced from a combination of comminuted shrimp meat with manioc flour, with the process being characterized in a preferred embodiment by, employing a thin plastic tube to form an intermediate product with better moisture control and product consistency being achieved than previously possible. The process comprises the steps of preparing a paste from an emulsion of shrimp at room temperatures to form a homogeneous paste which is steamed and cooled down according to a particular sequence in order to produce an intermediate product that will expand to form a chip processing an improved overall cellular structure directly benefiting from certain novel process steps as taught hereinafter.

Abstract: An agglomerate of dehydrated potato particles containing a binder, the agglomerate having a bulk density in the range of 0.25-0.50 grams per milliliter a bulk porosity in the range of 0.6-0.9 and an initial moisture absorption rate during reconstitution at 130.degree.F of 0.20 to 0.35 grams of water per gram of product per second and being reconstitutable without agitation to form a substantially homogenous dough even when disposed as a consolidated mass. By proper distribution of the binder among the particles, the reconstituted potato dough exhibits uniform cohesive characteristics that allow for ready division into shapes suitable for french-frying.

Abstract: A potato dough is prepared so that it is 23 to 40% solids including cooked intact potato cells, binder and raw starch, the remainder of the dough being moisture. The dough is divided into slabs and cut into strips of normal French fry potato size. The strips are then parfried in deep fat to a moisture content in the range of 40-65% to gelatinize the starch and form a matrix surrounding the intact potato cells throughout the piece, which matrix gels upon cooling, is not thereafter disturbed and makes the product freeze-thaw stable. The product is then frozen and stored. Without loss of piece integrity the product can be finish fried directly, or even after prolonged thawing, by deep fat frying or oven heating to form a crisp French fry.

Abstract: A dough binder for puffable food products comprising an alcohol washed, granular hydroxypropyl waxy-maize based starch derivative obtained by the dry reaction of acid hydrolyzed waxy maize starch which has also been treated with anhydrous disodium phosphate and propylene oxide to a hydroxypropyl degree of substitution of 0.3 to 0.5. The granular, crude starch derivative is cold water swelling, and is alcohol washed and dried to 3-5 percent moisture.Doughs made using the subject granular, ungelatinized starch derivative as a dough binder are more formable and workable, having the consistency of modeling clay. It is non-sticking, but readily cold-formable when used at about 30-70 percent of our starch derivative. 0-10 percent shortening, 0-30 percent other food materials, and 10-40 percent water. The dough mixture is then cold formed into the desired shapes and sizes, and may be baked or cooked at elevated temperatures (300.degree.-475.degree.F.

Abstract: A method is described for producing a dry pet food having a moisture content of less than 15 percent by weight. The dry pet food has a fibrous meat-like texture even though it contains a substantial amount of amylaceous ingredient. This texture is obtained by utilizing specific types of proteinaceous adhesives in conjunction with plasticizing agents and processing in a manner to form fibers.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for preparing a chip-type snack is disclosed. A dough is prepared and sheeted. An elongated shaped ribbon is cut from the dough sheet. The ribbon is passed through a deep fat fryer and then separated into individual chips by fracturing the ribbon.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for preparing a chip-type snack is disclosed. A dough is prepared and sheeted. An elongated shaped ribbon of connected dough pieces is cut from the dough sheet. The ribbon is passed through a deep fat fryer and then severed into individual chips.

Abstract: A procedure is provided for preparing protein-free wafers by mixing starch with water, stabilizing the mixture with an aqueous dispersion of a small percent by weight of gelatinized starch and forming wafers from the mixture thus prepared.