Stratified chromatically distinct sherbet confection and method of making same

• US 4,507,326 A
• Filed: 06/27/1983
• Issued: 03/26/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Dogwood Restaurants Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Friendly Ice Cream Corporation (Freeze Operations Holding Corporation)
• Inventors: Tarantino, Jeffrey W.
• Primary Examiner(s): HUNTER, JEANETTE M
• Application Number:
  US06/508,257
• Time in Patent Office: 638 Days
• Field of Search: 426/249, 426/565, 426/566, 426/567, 426/515, 426/516, 426/518, 426/524, 426/512, 426/100, 426/101
• US Class Current: 426/101
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 9/285 for extruding strips, cutting blocks and manipulating cut blocks
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 9/44 characterised by shape, structure or physical form liquid products, solid products in the form of powders, flakes or granules for making liquid products A23G9/52
• CPC Class Codes: A23G 9/48 Composite products, e.g. layered , laminated, coated, filled

Abstract

A selectively shaped, chromatically distinct stratified sherbet confection and method of making the same. Partially prefrozen chromatically distinct sherbert extruded from a multichambered extrusion head and subjected to extremely low temperatures, preferably by spraying the surface of the extrusion with liquid nitrogen, to form a structural cohesive external rigid crust, which contributes to the stability of the extrusion'"'"'s shape during subsequent operations upon it.

Claims

1. A method of forming selectively shaped and chromatically distinct stratified sherbet confections comprising the steps of

independently feeding at least a first and a second chromatically distinct and partially prefrozen sherbet into a selectively shaped extrusion head,

conjointly extruding said chromatically distinct and partially prefrozen sherbets from said extrusion head in the form of a unitary composite internally interfacially engaged product of selective external contour and having a plurality of chromatically distinct cross-sectional strata,

spraying a thin water coating upon external exposed surfaces of said composite product,

quickly thereafter reducing the temperature of the external exposed surfaces of said composite product by exposure to a spray of liquid nitrogen to form a rigid frozen crust thereon,

and subsequently reducing the temperature of the remainder of said composite product to convert the same into a substantially solid self supporting transportable structure.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1 further including the step of severing said composite product having the rigid crust therein into discrete segments prior to reducing the temperature of the remainder of said composite product.

3. A method according to claim 1 in which the liquid nitrogen is sprayed within a tunnel-like shroud having the spray means near its upstream end and an exhaust means near its downstream end.

4. An extruded composite stratified sherbet confection comprising

a first selectively contoured sherbet strata,

a second selectively contoured sherbet strata chromatically distinct from said first strata,

said first and second strata having a predetermined portion of the surfaces thereof complementally contoured and disposed in internal interfacial engagement to conjointly form a unitary composite sherbet product having chromatically distinct cross-sectional strata.

5. A composite sherbet as set forth in claim 4 wherein

said first strata is of semiellipsoidal configuration and is of a first predetermined color,

said second strata concentrically and uniformly surrounds the external curved surface portions of said first strata and is disposed in internal interfacial engagement therewith.

6. A composite sherbet product as set forth in claim 5 wherein

said first strata is formed of reddish hued sherbet of watermelon flavor,

said second strata is formed of light hued sherbet of lemon flavor, and further including

dark green coloring matter included in the external exposed surface of said second strata,

chocolate chip particles distributed within said first strata.