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Method of Converting Mesquite Beans.

Description: Patent for a new and improved method of treating mesquite beans. This is a design "whereby they are converted into a healthful easily-digestible article of food . . . or may be infused in liquid for producing a healthful or agreeable drink" (lines 8-13). It consists, "first, in a preliminary drying of the bean as a whole to eradicate moisture; second, breaking the thus-dried bean into short pieces to render it more readily affected by the heat . . . third, roasting the broken particles to rende… more
Date: July 26, 1892
Creator: Jacobs, Thomas H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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