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Barley Water

A simple barley beverage made by boiling barley in water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Barley Water

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the barley

  1. Wash the pearl barley with water to remove any foreign matter.

  2. Add ½ pint of water.

  3. Boil for a short time.

  4. Discard the liquid.

Make the barley water

  1. Pour 4 pints of boiling water over the barley.

  2. Boil for a while until the water is infused.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Pearl barley
Provides the starch and flavour that infuse into the water, giving the drink its body.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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