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2 ounces pearl barley

1 teaspoon lemon juice

5 pints water

1 tablespoon raisins

 

Boil barley in one pint water until tender, adding raisins and lemon

juice as the barley cools. Strain. Serve the barley as a grain dish or

add to other recipes. Add remaining four pints of water to barley water and simmer down to two pints. Cool.

 

Barley water may be soaked into a poultice or cotton and placed over the eyes while resting to relieve eye strain and dryness. This in turn may relieve headaches.

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