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Originally Posted by drcoastline

The first time I ever cooked with Barley I had no idea what I was doing or how it acted, so I bought two one pound bags of pearl barley. I made my beef soup. Pour about half a bag into the pot, didn't seem like enough, so poured the whole bag in. Covered and came back about fifteen minutes later. stirred still didn't look like enough. So I poured in the other bag. Let it come up to temp then turned it down and let simmer. I fell asleep fr a while when I woke up and checked the pot looked like oatmeal. So for the next week I ate beef flavored barely with meat chunks.

Thank you! I was chuckling by the second line and laughed out loud for the rest.
I grew up with barley being one of the first ingredients in the pot.

Best
Les