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Barley Water

4 servings

Ingredients

• barley (handful)
• bread crust, roasted (a little)
• sugar (a little)
• cinnamon (a little)
• orange peel (a little)
• 1 l water

Instructions

1. Roast a handful of selected, washed, and dried barley in a pan until the grains have popped.
2. Then boil with roasted bread crust, a little sugar, cinnamon, and orange peel in 1 liter of water for 1 hour, and strain through a hair sieve or napkin.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.