Barley Water I
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Pick over and wash the barley.
Put the barley into a double boiler.
Make the barley water
Add cold water and salt.
Cook for 6 hours.
Strain and cool.
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
- Its starch dissolves into the cooking water, giving the drink its body and mild flavour.
- Cold water
- Provides the liquid that extracts flavour and starch from the barley during long cooking.
The step that matters
Cook for 6 hours. Long, gentle heat in a double boiler extracts starch and flavour from the barley slowly, while keeping the liquid from scorching or boiling down too far.
“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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