Recipe - Old-Fashioned Barley Pudding with Pearl Barley

Alberta Barley - a hearty, healthy choice!

Old ~ Fashioned Barley Pudding This delicious pudding is a favourite for dessert or brunch. It is similar to rice pudding.
2/3 cups 3 cups 1 tsp	pearl barley boiling water salt	150 mL 750 mL 5 mL
1 1/3 cups 1/8 tsp 1/4 cup 1 Tbsp 1 tsp 2 ½ tsp 1 tsp 1/3 cup	milk salt brown sugar butter or margarine vanilla eggs, lightly beaten grated lemon rind lemon juice raisins	325 mL ½ mL 50 mL 15 mL 5 mL 2 2 mL 5 mL 75 mL

Boil water and add barley and salt. Cook slowly for 45 minutes or until barley is tender. Cool. Combine milk, salt, sugar, butter, vanilla and eggs and beat well. Then add cooked barley, raisins, lemon rind and juice.

Turn into a well-greased 1.5 L (1 ½ quart) baking pan. Set pan into a larger baking pan in oven. Pour hot water into the larger pan to within an inch of the top of the custard. Bake at 160° C (325° F), for about 1 hour until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Serve hot or cold. Makes 6 servings.

From:

Alberta Barley Commission