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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2001
Dieter Blaschke, La Tour-de-Peilz, CH;
Peter Nairn, St-Legier, CH;
Merrie Martin, New Milford, CT (US);
Eugene Scoville, New Milford, CT (US);
Jenifer Cramer, New Milford, CT (US);
Karl Christian Fuchs, Gaylordsville, CT (US);
Nestec S.A., Vevey, CH;
Abstract
A ready-for-use refrigerated sweet dough that is prepared from flour, sugar, a leavening agent and fat. The dough has a surface that includes grooves, score lines, or combinations thereof which define pieces of the dough to be broken off and baked into individual bakery products such as cookies, muffins, brownies, or other pastries. The grooves, score lines, or combinations thereof each have a depth of about 3% to about 95% of the thickness of the dough. The dough is in the form of a sheet or a parallelepipedal, cylinder, prismatic block or polygon having a thickness of from about 0.5 to 5 cm.