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Barley Gruel

From Mrs. Rorer's diet for the sick (1914).

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A historical recipe

Mrs. Rorer's diet for the sick, by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer (1914).

United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a half pint of milk

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Put a half pint of milk in a double boiler, add one level teaspoonful of barley meal moistened in a little cold milk ;
  2. soak an hour, and cook for at least twenty minutes.
  3. Take from the fire, add a grain of salt, and cool.
  4. With cream, this makes a nice supper soup for children or the aged.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
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Credit

From Mrs. Rorer's diet for the sick (1914), printed page 251, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mrsrorersdietfor00roreiala

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.