Barley Boiled
Ingredients
Directions
Set up
Wash the barley in cold water.
Combine the washed barley, cold water, and salt in a small saucepan with a steam pipe in the cover.
Place this saucepan into another saucepan filled with boiling water.
Cook and serve
Boil for 2 hours, ensuring the water remains boiling until the barley is cooked.
Serve with sugar, cream, or milk.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Pearl barley
- Starch that absorbs water and softens into a chewy, tender grain.
The step that matters
Keeping the outer pan at a full boil. The outer pan of boiling water heats the inner saucepan gently and steadily. If it stops boiling, heat drops and the barley cooks more slowly and may turn out unevenly tender.
“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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