Put one-half of a cup of barley to soak, boil with four dried or green onions. Add salt, and strain.
BREAD GRUEL. No. 1. (WITH BARLEY.)
Soak and boil one-half cup of barley with salt in three pints of water, very tender, until there remains about a cup of liquid. Strain this. Then take some French bread or soda crackers, pour sufficient boiling water and a tablespoonful of milk sugar or cane sugar on it, let stand until it is perfectly soft, or until the water is all soaked into the bread. Then add the cup of barley water, let all boil for a few minutes or until bread and barley are well united. It may be strained, if desired.
Brown Flour: Put some white flour on a pie tin and brown in the oven.
OATMEAL GRUEL.
Wash half a cup of steel cut oats. Put on to boil with three pints of boiling water and salt. Let boil half an hour. Strain, add butter and serve. This is excellent for nursing mothers. Use more water if it is desired thin. Do not press through the pulp.
RICE GRUEL. No. 1.
Mix two to three tablespoonfuls of rice flour with a little cold water, add to it a pint of boiling water, two level tablespoonfuls of sugar of milk, salt to taste, boil 15 to 20 minutes. Put on a soup plate, pour hot or cold sterilized cream over it.
RICE GRUEL. No. 2.
Prepare as number one. After removing from the fire, add a piece of butter, and the yolk of an egg, mix thoroughly, then put on a soup plate. Serve with or without cream.