Barley Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Combine the washed pearl barley and water in a quart saucepan.
Boil slowly until the liquid reduces to 1 cup.
Strain the mixture and allow the liquid to set into a jelly.
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
- Releases starch and soluble fibre into the water, which thickens the liquid and helps it set as a jelly.
The step that matters
Boil until reduced to 1 cup. Simmering slowly extracts starch from the barley and concentrates the liquid. If it is not reduced enough, the strained liquid stays too thin to set into a jelly.
“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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