Method for making a rice-cracker or senbei

• US 4,247,567 A
• Filed: 01/24/1979
• Issued: 01/27/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Unified Products, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Sakata Beika Kabushiki Kaisha, Yamashiro Seika KK
• Inventors: Momiyama, Denji
• Primary Examiner(s): Golian, Joseph M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): YEUNG, GEORGE CHAN PUI
• Application Number:
  US06/006,551
• Time in Patent Office: 734 Days
• Field of Search: 426/502, 426/549, 426/560, 426/615, 426/496, 426/499, 426/514, 426/516, 426/93, 426/302, 426/305, 426/450, 426/94, 426/438, 426/439, 426/143, 426/144, 426/296, 426/501 , 426/512, 426/506
• US Class Current: 426/302
• CPC Class Codes: A21D 13/047 from cereals other than rye or wheat, e.g. rice
• CPC Class Codes: A21D 13/066 Gluten-free products
• CPC Class Codes: A21D 13/22 coated before baking
• CPC Class Codes: A21D 13/28 characterised by the coating composition
• CPC Class Codes: A21D 13/40 Products characterised by the type, form or use
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 7/117 Flakes or other shapes of ready-to-eat type; Semi-finished or partly-finished products therefor cereal granules or flakes to be cooked and eaten hot A23L7/143; cereal germ products A23L7/152

Abstract

This invention relates to a method for making a rice-cracker or "senbei" as it is known in Japan which has a curved shape such as cylindrical, hemispherical or petaloid unlike the usual flat rice-cracker; a planar blank of a rice-cracker is made by rolling, by punching and by drying so as to have an appropriate water content and one surface of the blank is coated with liquid seasoning including salt water; the blank is then heated with the water content of one surface being different from that of the other surface with the two surfaces being heated to different temperatures.

Claims

1. A method of making a non-planar rice cracker comprising the steps of providing a thin plate-like planar blank of conventional rice paste having a thickness in the range of 0.2 mm to 2.0 mm and a water content of at least 4%, applying a coating of salt water having a salt content of not less than 5% or more than 20% to one surface of said planar blank of rice paste to form a saline coating film and baking said planar blank of rice paste under a condition so that the water in the saline coating film does not substantially permeate inwardly so that the water content of the coated surface is different from that of the other non-coated surface to effect a curling of the planar blank into a curved shape.