The Pillsbury Company

James S Thorson

Jimmy A Demars

Susan M Hayes-Jacobson

Glenn O Rasmussen

Jean L Weber

Gregory C Vargas

Doug L Goedeken

Cheryl L Mitchell

Quinghuang Geng

Lochi D Munasinghe

Methods for making an uncooked extruded dough product are provided, comprising extruding a dough composition of pre-gelatinized starch comprising at least about 75 percent of amylopectin, flour, leavening agent and water through a die under conditions so that the dough composition does not exceed 140&#xb0; F. throughout the extrusion process. The resulting dough product when cooked has a baked specific volume of greater than about 3.0 cc/g. Products of this process, including filled products, are also provided.

Method of extruding bread dough and products thereof

A cutting apparatus cuts a rolled dough product. The apparatus includes a conveyor conveying a rolled dough cylinder along a dough travel path. A nozzle is coupled to a liquid source providing liquid under pressure and is directed toward the dough travel path. The nozzle is offset from a surface of the dough cylinder by an offset distance sufficient so the cutter can cut a portion from the dough cylinder and provide sufficient separation between the cut portion and the dough cylinder so the cut portion does not stick to the dough cylinder.

Liquid jet cutter for cutting a rolled dough product

An apparatus for cutting dough products fed by a conveyor assembly into a cutting section comprises a segmented, generally spiral-shaped straight cutting blade or three-dimensional or helical-shaped cutting blade having an angled blade edge, the blade attached to a shaft coupled to a motor operable to turn the blade to effect a cut of the dough products within the cutting section, with a feedback controller coordinating the blade turning rate with the dough feed rate.

Apparatus for cutting dough products

An improved depositor apparatus for depositing material from a material source. The depositor apparatus including first and second dispensing assemblies having spaced-apart outlets. The first and second dispensing assemblies are reciprocally operated to alternately dispense material. A feed device is coupled to the first and second dispensing assemblies for supplying material from the material source to the first and second dispensing assemblies for discharge.

Depositor apparatus

In a first embodiment, the present invention provides an improved finishing process for dry mixes for baked goods of widely varying compositions. According to this embodiment, a standard cake finisher is replaced with a disc mill, which yields surprisingly superior dry mix properties. In another embodiment of the invention having particular utility in dry mixes for brownies and the like, a dry, particulate pre-mix is formed by mixing the shortening with a selected portion of the dry ingredients of the dry mix. It is preferred that no more than approximately 25% of the total flour content of the dry mix be added in this pre-mix. This pre-mix is then mixed with the rest of the ingredients of the dry mix and this final dry mix may subjected to a finishing operation such as that of the first embodiment of the invention.

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Scandia, MN, United States of America

James S Thorson