Posts Tagged with: pearl barley

Ragout of Mutton

I told two people I was making something with pearl barley in it yesterday and you’d think I had told them the pathways were lined with gold or something so if you are not excited about mutton (which you will be if you try this), you may be about pearl barley!

The words of Granny …

Eat meat from happily reared animals, and then you have their permission to really enjoy what you eat. Seconded by my great great grandmother, Dorothy Peel, in her books 100 years ago: ‘To judge by a letter which has appeared in the daily press and from private conversations it would seem that many people think that to abstain from meat on one of two days a week and to limit their total consumption to 2 ½ lb. per head per week is a restriction which may seriously affect their health. To be quite frank, it may affect their greed, but it certainly will not adversely affect their health; indeed, there seems good reason to think that less meat-eating would improve the health of the well-to-do.’ Mrs C.S. Peel, The Eat Less Meat Book, 1917