Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Barley.

It sometimes happens that milk disagrees with a delicate infant so seriously that it is necessary to substitute some other article of diet for a few days. I have known barley water to be used, in such cases, with great success.

• 2 cups boiling water.
• 2 tablespoonfuls pearl barley—picked over and washed.
• A pinch of salt.
• 2 teaspoonfuls white sugar—not heaping.

Soak the barley half an hour in a very little lukewarm water, and stir, without draining, into the boiling water, salted very slightly. Simmer one hour, stirring often, and strain before sweetening.