BARLEY

WATER. (1) Clear. Two ounces of pearl barley are to be well washed and then blanched by placing in a saucepan of cold water, bringing to the boil and straining. The blanched barley is then placed in a jug and a pint of boiling water poured on it; when cold the mixture is strained, flavourcd with vanilla or lemon and sugar, and used as a refreshing drink. (2) Thick. Two good teaspoonfuls of blanched barlcy arc boiled for twenty ninutes in a pint of water in an enamelled saucepan and then strained. The fluid thus obfained is the barley water used for diluting milk in the artificial feeding of infants. [s. 334]