Cream Barley Soup a la Ericsson Hammond

Ingredients

• Cook half cup pearl barley
• about three quarts water
• carrots
• onions
• leek
• pepper
• salt
• a knuckle of veal
• one tablespoon butter
• one tablespoon flour
• two cups of milk

Method

1. 1

   Cook barley with water and vegetables for three hours.

2. 2

   Thicken with a cream sauce made from butter, flour, and milk.

3. 3

   Add cream before serving.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Swedish, French, American cook book (1918) by Hammond, Maria Mathilda (Ericsson) Mrs., page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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