Dry sausage casing

• Main Authors: TURBAK ALBIN FRANK, ROSE HENRY JACOB
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 11.10.1967
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING; BUTCHERING; HUMAN NECESSITIES; MEAT TREATMENT; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PROCESSING MEAT, POULTRY, OR FISH; PROCESSING POULTRY OR FISH; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; TRANSPORTING; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

A synthetic tubular sausage casing, for example of regenerated cellulose, for dry sausage, such as salami and cervelat, is coated on the interior surface with 0.1-5% soluble protein having a molecular weight above 10,000 and an isoelectric point in the range pH2-pH6, such as gelatin or egg albumen, and sufficient liquid smoke in the range 0.05-5% wt. of the casing to substantially insolubilize the protein after drying, whereby the casing will shrink with and adhere to the surface of the dry sausage therein. An insoluble non-toxic powder may be added in small amount to function as an anti-blocking agent. Suitable powders include wood flour, starch, walnut shell flour, chalk, talc, mica, graphite, calcium phosphate, and calcium carbonate.ALSO:A synthetic tubular sausage casing, for example of regenerated cellulose, for dry sausage, such as salami and cervelat, is coated on the interior surface with 0.1-5% soluble protein having a molecular weight above 10,000 and an iso-electric point in the range pH2-pH6, such as gelatin or egg albumen, and sufficient liquid smoke in the range 0.05-5% wt. of the casing to substantially insolubilise the protein after drying, whereby the casing will shrink with and adhere to the surface of the dry sausage therein. An insoluble non toxic powder may be added in small amount to function as an anti-blocking agent. Suitable powders include wood flour, starch, walnut shell flour, chalk, talc, mica, graphite, calcium phosphate, and calcium carbonate.