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Barley Water

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. Sugar
  2. Beer
  3. Brandy
  4. two glasses of gin
  5. Allspice
  6. Nutmeg
Contains Gluten Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

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. it all the time.
  2. Set it over the fire, with a small pinch of allspice, and stir till it is thoroughly united, and on the point of boiling.
  3. Then set it on the hob a few minutes.
  4. In a jug put, for each quart of gruel, a table-spoonful of moist sugar, a little nutmeg, and two glasses of gin, or rather more than one of brandy.
  5. If the caudle is made of oatmeal, the beer may be mixed in the first making.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
  • Measuring jug