Beverage and method of making same

Claim 1

IN A METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PLEASANT AND REFRESHING PARTIALLY FROZEN NON-CARBONATED BEVERAGE INCLUDING BY WEIGHT ABOUT 40% OF SUBSTANTIALLY NON-AGGLOMERATING ICE CRYSTALS OF A PREDETERMINED AND CONTROLLED SIZE AND ABOUT 60% LIQUID AT A SERVING TEMPERATURE OF BETWEEN ABOUT 28 TO 30* F., SAID BEVERAGE BEING FREE OF UNDESIRABEL SMALL DISPERSED GELATINOUS MASSES; THE STEPS OF: PREPARING A DRY POWERED MIXTURE OF FLAVOR SUGAR, A TASTELESS AND ODORLESS HYDROPHILIC COLLOID AND AN AMOUNT OF DRY FOOD GRADE ACID HAVING A DELAYED SOLUBILITY, DISSOLVING SAID MIXTURE OF FLAVOR, SUGAR AND COLLOID IN A SUITABLE AMOUNT OF WATER, THEREAFTER DISSOLVING SAID AMOUNT OF DRY ACID SOLUTION, AND THEREAFTER COOLING SAID SOLUTION WHILE AGITATING FOR A TIME AND AT A TEMPERATURE NECESSARY TO PROVIDE SAID ICE CRYSTALS, THE AMOUNT OF SAID COLLOID PRESENT BEING FROM ABOUT 03-12% AND THE AMOUNT OF SAID SUGAR BEING FROM ABOUT 12 TO 15%, ALL SAID PERCENTAGES BEING BY WEIGHT OF SAID SOLUTION AND THE AMOUNT OF SAID ACID BEING FROM ABOUT .2 TO .25% OF SAID SOLUTION.