Claims
- 1. A method for preparing a mounted food product, comprising the following steps:
- a. feeding to a coextrusion die an unbaked but coherent, doughy material containing a gas-producing agent and a filling material selected from a group consisting of meat, vegetable, dairy, fruit filling material, and mixture thereof, said coextrusion die having generally concentric die openings, an outer die opening surrounding a generally concentric inner die opening, the doughy material being fed to the outer die opening and the filling material being fed to the generally concentric inner die opening,
- b. coextruding said doughy material and filling material to form an elongated extrudate a comprising of an outer layer of said doughy material and inner core of the filling material onto moving, substantially flat, substantially horizontal surface while maintaining the doughy material at a temperature which will not activate or de-activate the gas-producing agent, the direction of movement of said substantially horizontal surface being away from the coextrusion die, so that a lower surface of said elongated extrudate is temporarily supported on said substantially horizontal surface, and an upper, surface of said elongated extrudate is exposed and comprises said doughy material, and the elongated extrudate is conveyed away from the extrusion die, and cutting the elongated extrudate into pieces each having an axis coincident with the longitudinal axis of the elongated extrudate from which they were cut and each having a freshly-cut first end, pointed toward the direction of movement of the substantially horizontal surface, and a freshly-out opposite end, pointed in the opposite direction,
- c. embedding a handle in the doughy material of the upper, exposed surface of each of said piece by providing an elongated depression into an interior of said doughy material of the upper exposed surface, said elongated depression being substantially coincident with the axis of each said piece, and locating said handle in said depression;
- d. sealing the handle in place by filling the depression with additional doughy material such that the handle is completely encircle with the doughy material, and
- e. activating said gas-producing agent by partial baking of said pieces thereby forming said mounted food product.
- 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the resulting mounted food product is baked and then frozen.
- 3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the resulting mounted food product, after being baked, is frozen sufficiently to be stored without deterioration.
- 4. The method according to claim 2, wherein said resulting mounted food product is removed from said support surface prior to being baked.
- 5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said handle is made of waterlaid card stock.
- 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said elongated extrudate and said pieces have a generally rectangular cross-section.
- 7. The method according to claim 1, wherein said resulting mounted food product is at least partially baked in place on said support surface and is removed from said surface after said at least partial baking.
- 8. The method according to claim 1, wherein said handle has been inserted through a sheet-like platform having an area approximately equal to the area of said opposite end.
- 9. The method according to claim 1, wherein said handle has a generally round cross-section.
Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/341,474 filed Nov. 17, 1994, now abandoned.
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