This is both refreshing and nourishing.

Ingredients: Two large tablespoonfuls c2 pearl barley.

One lemon.

One pint of boiling water.

Three or four lumps of sugar. Put the barley in a saucepan, with enough cold water to cover it. Bring it to boiling point, let it boil for five minutes, then strain off the water and throw it away. This "blanching," as it is called, removes the bitter flavour of the barley and improves the colour. Put the barley in a jug with the thinly pared rind and strained juice of the lemon, and the sugar, pour on the pint of boiling water. Cover the jug and leave until cold, then strain off the liquid, and it is ready.

N.B. - If at any time barley water is required to be given with milk, make it in exactly the same way, but leave out the lemon.