Notebook 3, July 1903-May 1904

Item — Box: 1

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Scope and Contents

From the Series:

The notebooks contain the starch experiments which Dr. Anderson began at Clemson College and continued at the New York Botanical Garden in 1901 where the process of puffing starch, rice and wheat was discovered. Dr Anderson continued his investigations for the Quaker Oats Company, to improve the cereal products of "puffed wheat" and "puffed rice". In 1917 he built a complex of laboratories in Red Wing, Minnesota where he continued his experiments. 38 notebooks numbering from 1-40. Notebooks 29 and 30 are missing.

Dates

July 1903-May 1904

Extent

From the Collection: 3 Linear Feet (3 boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Starch, etc. Investigations. Data given from work carried out in Chicago, IL. devoted to experiments: to determine usefulness of various cylinder constructions, to sugar and glaze rice and other puffed materials with some form of sweetener. to crisp rice permanently to make cereal coffee from puffed barley and green coffee cracker jack to puff dent corn puffed pearl hominy and hominy grits puffed paddy rice, puffed "argo" starch, puffed wheat, buckwheat, starch, tapioca barley, puffed bread and macaroni, etc.