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Pearl Barley Soup with Milk

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 cup fine pearl barley
• butter (piece)
• water (a little)
• 1 l milk
• salt (a little)
• potato flour (optional) (a little)
• cinnamon and sugar or mace (to preference)

Instructions

1. Bring the fine pearl barley to a boil with a small piece of butter and a little soft water, then cook slowly until soft, adding more boiling water as needed.
2. Add the milk and a little salt, and let the soup cook until quite creamy.
3. Finally, if desired, thicken with a little dissolved potato flour and season as preferred with cinnamon and sugar or finely crushed mace.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.