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A white knuckle ride of a thread about PEARL BARLEY

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Slubberdegullion · 02/02/2011 21:26

[Florence & The Machine Inspirational Music Intro]

Pearl Barley

[Shots of young people doing parkour on walls with graffiti]


Right I have 375 g of pearl barley left in my 500g bag and unless I get some VERY EXCITING and dramatic ideas of what the chuff to do with it the dds will be clearing it out from the top back shelf in 40 years time when I have snuffed it.

NO SOUP

Thank you

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Slubberdegullion · 04/02/2011 10:58

I'm going to do it in the slow cooker tonight.

I like to cover all the cooking bases thoroughly.

Tomorrow I may use it on the Cobb, or place it in a hole in the ground with hot coals and moss.

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Twit · 04/02/2011 11:05

I cooked it as I did the slow cooker stuff and added it near the end last time. It was lovely.
Maybe I'll try just the boiling part before adding it to the slow cooker today and cook it with the rest. Hmmm the possibilities...

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Slubberdegullion · 04/02/2011 11:20

The possibilities are endless Twit, as I am only just beginning to realise..

It is the polymath of carbs.

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Eleison · 04/02/2011 11:22

Well, re timing, for perfection in a stew it does need a couple of hours. But I boiled (vigorously) for only about twenty mins this morning and it was fine. Not quite so throbbingly succulent as I would wish, but fine. I think it cooks quicker in the plentiful liquid of breakfast boiing than in the realatively scarce juices of a stew.

The real key to its loveliness, incidentally, is that you can get it meltingly soft without all the disintegration issues that rice presents us with. Each grain is still, reolutely, itself when at maximum juicy engorgement. Unlike quitter rice.

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Slubberdegullion · 04/02/2011 11:28

BLOODY HELL

That last post should come with a 15 certificate warning.

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Slubberdegullion · 04/02/2011 11:29
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Twit · 04/02/2011 11:44

So boiling it then stickin git in the stew for a couple of hours should be ok?



Your breakfast idea sounds lovely

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Twit · 04/02/2011 11:51
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piratecat · 04/02/2011 11:56

lol slubber great title.

i recommend you use it as a facial scrub ?

ps i can't cook jack.

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PearlBarley · 04/02/2011 12:11

honorary namechange.

When it's in a lamb stew it's renamed "Spew Stew" because of it's lumpiness and accompanying carrots it resembles sick. Tastes much nicer though.

Liking the breakfast idea muchly.

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Eleison · 04/02/2011 12:18

Ag. You are putting me off now. Love the name though.

I want to hijack the PFB acronym for 'Pearl Fucking Barley' -- to be used irritably whenever someone asks 'how can I liven up my stews'

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JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 04/02/2011 12:30

I posted this recipe ages ago. Is good.

I generally just chuck PFB in casseroles though. Like the idea of a risotto (orzotto?) too.

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Slubberdegullion · 04/02/2011 12:44

mm

Well PFB does make it sound a bit more edgy and dangerous. Not sure if it fits in without the whole 'comfy on the mouth' tag line though.

I am already planning out the conversation I'm going to have on the phone with Mr Sainsbury when he calls up to thank me for the 4000% increase in PB sales and offers me a job creating the new packaging.

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LemonDifficult · 04/02/2011 13:03

115 posts on Pearl Fucking Barley, and that's a pretty geeky ingredient.

What's going to happen when we get to pulse-quickening pulses like aduki beans, (with thread overture by La Roux, shots of Heli-skiing, natch)? We could have a Mumsnet Store Cupboard Stampede on our hands.

Am I Being Unreasonable to Demand Dried Haricot Beans be Soaked Overnight?

DH refusing puy lentils - is it over?

Sister-in-Law's wedding cake bean-free and no wholefood ingredients on menu. Should DCs still be allowed contact?

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Hullygully · 04/02/2011 13:08

Separate it all out and paint each bit in beautiful colours. Throw it over the floor of the Tate Modern.

Deny plagiarism.

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Piccalilli2 · 04/02/2011 13:11

Jamie Oliver's dark sticky stew has pearl barley in it and is responsible for the three-quarters full bag at the back of my cupboard. Thanks to this thread I now know what to do with it.

Now, any ideas for the jar of marmite which I also bought for the afore-mentioned stew?

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JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 04/02/2011 13:22

The recipe I linked to upthread uses PFB and Marmite. Only in very small quatities.

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bigbadbarry · 04/02/2011 13:25

I really need to know what you did with the 125 missing grams?

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Eleison · 04/02/2011 13:27

Hullygully that is a TOP suggestion. It ought to be Tip of the Week. But I fear slubber will reject it as craft-related.

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Hullygully · 04/02/2011 13:31

Ah. Ok.

Carefully thread long strings of them together and attach to your car seat for a relaxing massage en voyage.

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Slubberdegullion · 04/02/2011 13:54

tbh I'm breezy with the craft ideas now. Have got over the 'create a rainmaker' suggestion.

Lol @ aduki with heli-skiing.

Bigbadbarry here is the recipe I used the first 125g with, but not in a pressure cooker.

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Slubberdegullion · 04/02/2011 13:57

Hully you would need to employ like dozens of tiny crochet adept fairies to string PFB grains together, they are wee wee things and actually quite hard in the uncooked state.

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Hullygully · 04/02/2011 14:01

Moan moan moan

Okay, slather the car seat in pritt stick and hurl them liberally at it.

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bigbadbarry · 04/02/2011 14:03

That looks lovely. Given that you are not prepared to make it again, was it not?

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Eleison · 04/02/2011 14:04

I can't see why that wouldn't work.

Added benefit is that the taste of pritt stick would keep the dog from eating it

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