Pearl Barley Recipe ingredients

• ½ cup pearl barley
• 2½ cups boiling water
• 1 teaspoon salt

To prepare this Pearl Barley Recipe, first put the barley into a small saucepan. Pour boiling water over it, and whip it with a batter whip. Pour off the water. Pour on more boiling water, whip again, and pour off the water. Repeat the process till the barley is thoroughly clean, and the water that is poured off is clear. Put the washed barley, water, and salt into the inner part of a double boiler, and put the two parts of the double boiler together, with boiling water in the outer part, and continue the cooking for five hours, keeping the cover on the inner part of the double boiler, of course. Or the barley may be cooked in a fireless cooker. If so small a quantity of cereal as this recipe calls for is cooked in a fireless cooker, it will be necessary to use heated soap-stones in the cooker, or to set the dish containing the cereal in a larger dish of boiling water, in order to have a sufficient volume of heat to hold the cereal at the cooking temperature for a sufficient length of time. Even then it may be well to remove the cereal from the cooker and reheat it once during the cooking. Serve with cream.

To stir raisins into cooked pearl barley makes a palatable blend of flavors. Use three-fourths cup to the quantity of cereal given in the preceding recipe.

To cook cracked wheat, whole wheat, Scotch oatmeal, or coarse hominy, follow the directions given for cooking pearl barley, varying the quantity of water according to the cereal. Stirring figs cut in small pieces into cooked Scotch oatmeal makes a very palatable dish.