[Sca-cooks] barley meal

[Stefan li Rous]

I was going to make some Welsh barley bread for our baronial Yule  
Revel pot luck tomorrow.

The recipe called for 1 1/2 pounds of barley meal. Unfortunately my  
grocery had lots of flours and meals including oats, but no barley  
meal. They did have Quaker Medium Pearled Barley and I figured I  
could grind that to a meal using my Kitchenaid food processor.

However, after much grinding, spinning noises and the barley heating  
up, all I've gotten is a faction of a cup of fine barley flour and a  
cup and a half of dusty barley kernels.

So what does the "Pearled" mean?

Is the food processor just the wrong machine for grinding up this  
barley? Or is there some way to do it other than simply dumping in  
the barley (I've tried both large and small batches) and turning it on?

I was also planning on making some baked apple cake/frittour type  
things, so for now I've abandoned the barley bread idea and I'll just  
go with them. Now to go chop up the apples "really small - almost but  
not quite as fine as grated".

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas           
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