pearl-barley

Take a cup of coarse pearl-barley (or of rice), roast it till yellow; then boil it with one quart of water for ten minutes; add one teaspoonful of muriatic-acid, and four or six tablespoonfuls of honey; mix it well and use it for a gargle, tepid.

Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms Charles Munde

MUTTON SOUP may be made from the fore-quarter, in the same manner as described above, thickened with pearl-barley or rice, and flavored to suit the taste.

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

Instead of soup, vegetables, and pudding, we had pearl-barley boiled in water, without salt or butter; to which treacle and vinegar was added at the dinner-table.

Visit to Iceland Ida Pfeiffer 1827

Boiled pearl-barley with prunes, onions and pumpkin seeds

Balderdash 2008

"owner" was anxious to get steerage-way, for we were not at anchor and in very ticklish soundings; so I slid off the bridge and had a sample of the grain handed up to me: it was a species of millet, looking very like pearl-barley as "milled" for culinary purposes.

Pan-Islam

Stripped of the husk, and rounded and polished in a mill, the grains are pearly white; and then they are known as pearl-barley. "

The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1875 Various