General Foods Limited

Kraft General Foods, Inc.

Earl J Benjamin

Richard B Hynson

Chi Ming Hsu

Charles H Ke

William C Seidel

Soliman Y Shenouda

Stuart A Cochran

Mary E Crocker

Vicki L Cipriano

Dreena A Calabrese

A leavened and unleavened frozen dough composition is prepared comprising wheat protein in an amount greater than 16% protein based on the total weight of flour. The frozen dough can withstand less than ideal commercial distribution temperatures and storage in home freezers for more than 16 weeks with good baked, end-product results. A preferred embodiment is a yeast-leavened dough which is proofed before freezing to minimize consumer preparation time from freezer to point of consumption. The proofed, frozen dough maintains a commercially satisfactory quality after more than 16 weeks frozen storage.

Method for producing frozen proofed dough

The invention describes a refrigerated, frozen or shelf stable improved baked good which will substantially retain its palatability upon microwave heating. The improvement is accomplished by the incorporation into the baked good of an effective amount of a chemically-modified starch with the exception of modified starches which are cross-linked only. The chemically-modified starch is preferably a food acceptable acetylated starch, hydroxypropylated starch, succinylated starch, propylated starch or combination. The modified starch is incorporated in an amount sufficient to reduce deteriorization in the palatability of the baked good upon microwave heating, preferably from 5 to 30 baker's percent. The starches are derived from potato, corn, wheat, rice and combinations.

Microwaveable baked goods

Frozen dough having improved frozen storage shelf life

A shrimp analog product with the taste, texture and appearance of real shrimp is prepared by: extracting from a fish the myofibrillar proteins; solubilizing the myofibrillar proteins with salt; adding to the solubilized protein a starch, flavor and an organic acid to form a paste; heat setting the paste to set the paste and denature the protein; shredding the heat set paste into filaments; mixing the filaments with a protein based binder followed by molding the mixture into shrimp-like pieces; and setting the filament-binder matrix to provide a cohesive shrimp analog product.

Shrimp analog

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New Rochelle, NY, United States of America

Earl J Benjamin