Barley Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the pearl barley.
Cook and finish
Cook the barley in 1 quart of cold water until tender, about 2 hours.
Add 1 quart of simple stock and enough hot water to make a total of 3 quarts.
Season to taste.
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
- Its starch thickens the broth and its chewy grains give the soup 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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