摘要:
An extrusion processed cookie is produced having shear sensitive particulates and/or heat sensitive additions uniformly dispersed therein. A dry flour blend, including flour, dry milk solids and salt is added to a blending zone of a cooker-extruder with a fat or shortening. The mixture is blended and heat-treated in a heating zone of the extruder under high temperatures without fat separation to form a heat-treated mass. The heat-treated mass is cooled in a cooling zone followed by the addition of a sugar, heat sensitive and/or shear sensitive ingredient to form a cookie composition. Water is also introduced to the cooling zone in an amount effective to produce a dough-like consistency. The heat-treated cookie composition is extruded and shaped into an unleavened and unexpanded cookie dough piece. The cookie pieces are then leavened by heating in a convection, microwave or radio frequency oven to produce a leavened cookie having a crumb-like structure.
摘要:
In the present invention leavened products which exhibit a cookie crumb-like structure and structural integrity are produced using high temperature mixing of ingredients comprising flour and oil to promote browning and flavor development. A heat treated mass produced in a cooker extruder is admixed with ingredients comprising water in a post extrusion mixer. The dough-like mixture produced in the post extrusion mixer is leavened and further browned using post-extrusion baking, such as microwave, dielectric radio frequency, infrared, conductive, or convection baking, frying, or a combination thereof. The shortening or fat content of the dough-like mixture may be from about 12% by weight to about 40% by weight, preferably from about 20% by weight to about 30% by weight, based upon the weight of the dough-like mixture. Separation of oil from the remaining mass and extruder surging and starch gelatinization are avoided preferably by admixing water into heat-treated ingredients comprising flour and oil after the during substantial cooling of the heat-treated ingredients. The extruder and post extrusion mixer are operated at low pressure, generally less than about 20 bars absolute, preferably less than about 10 bars absolute. The relative amount of solid, crystalline or granulated sugar, such as sucrose, subjected to the heat treatment may be used to control the tenderness and crunchiness of the final product.
摘要:
Methods of preparing a gelled dried sweetened products comprise the steps in sequence of: providing a hot fluid gelable base blend at near finish % solids, and depositing the fluid gelable base blend into shaped cavities. The present methods can further comprise the steps of rapidly curing the base blend to form gelled shaped pieces; and, separating the gelled shaped pieces from the shaped cavities to form quantities of shaped pieces. Depositing a gelable base blend at near finish solids content is possible by completely hydrating any gel hydrocolloids prior to addition to other wet and dry ingredients.
摘要:
Nutrient clusters for food products such as for addition to Ready-To-Eat cereals by providing, in a preferred form of the present invention, nutrient products such in the form of aggregates or clusters comprising a first particulate component; a nutrient powder blend, and sufficient binder to adhere the powder to the particulates. The nutrient clusters are in the form of pieces each weighing from about 0.3 to 5 g. and having a moisture content of about 2% to 10%. Disclosed are methods of preparing such nutrient clusters involving applying a liquid binder to the particulates to form sticky particulates, adding a powdered nutrient blend and curing the mixtures to form hardened dried nutrient clusters. The nutrient cluster can contain 100% US recommended daily allowance (“USRDA”) of essential vitamins and minerals and can contain added macronutrients such as soy proteins, soluble fiber, and/or calcium in nutritionally dense form in as little as 5 to 15 g of nutrient clusters. The clusters find particular suitability for use in providing to-order customized cereal products in response to particular customer requirements for nutrition.
摘要:
The present invention relates to the production of cookie products by adding cookie ingredients to a cooker extruder to form a heat treated mass, which is admixed with additional cookie ingredients to form a dough-like cookie mixture. The cookie mixture is subsequently wire cut into individual pieces. The individual dough pieces can then be further subjected to post extrusion heating to leaven them.
摘要:
Volatile and/or labile components, especially flavoring components, are encapsulated in extruded glassy matrices comprising:(a) from about 40 to about 80 percent by weight of a water-soluble, chemically-modified starch having a dextrose equivalent not greater than about 2;(b) from about 10 to about 40 percent by weight of a maltodextrin having a dextrose equivalent in the range of from about 5 to about 15;(c) from about 5 to about 20 percent by weight of corn syrup solids or a polydextrose having a dextrose equivalent in the range of from about 21 to about 42; and(d) from about 5 to about 20 percent by weight of a mono- or disaccharide.These glassy matrices are useful for introducing and/or retaining and/or stabilizing the volatile and/or labile components in cooked and uncooked food products.