barleymeal

“Hark you, sirrah,” said the Doctor, “I trust you remember you are owing to the laird four stones of barleymeal, and a bow of oats; and I would have you send no more such kain-fowls as you sent last season, that looked as wretchedly as patients just dismissed from a plague-hospital; and there is hard money owing besides.”

The Abbot 2008

A string of twenty bearers bearing barleymeal followed at his heels, succeeded by other twenty carrying wine, and three laden with a supply of olives, and two others carrying, the one about as much garlic as a single man could lift, and the other a similar load of onions.

Anabasis 2007

Anon a ship from Heraclea arrived bringing barleymeal, victim animals, and wine.

Anabasis 2007

In rural Scotland this was traditionally marked by the baking of an oatmeal, barleymeal or rye bannock - one of the few foodstuffs that Columba allowed himself in his monastry on the island of Iona.

Archive 2006-06-01 2006

Wheat was difficult to grow and so wheat flour was historically used much less frequently that barleymeal or oatmeal meal is a less finely ground product than flour.

Archive 2006-06-01 2006

In rural Scotland this was traditionally marked by the baking of an oatmeal, barleymeal or rye bannock - one of the few foodstuffs that Columba allowed himself in his monastry on the island of Iona.

Oatmeal Bannock (Scones Part 1) 2006

The 'white' refers to the fact that these scones are made with wheat flour, rather than oatmeal or barleymeal these along with rye are Scotland's traditional grains; the secondary title reveals that the scones are leavened in the same way as soda bread is - with baking soda and cream of tartar.

Girdle Scones (Scones Part 2) 2006

The 'white' refers to the fact that these scones are made with wheat flour, rather than oatmeal or barleymeal these along with rye are Scotland's traditional grains; the secondary title reveals that the scones are leavened in the same way as soda bread is - with baking soda and cream of tartar.

Archive 2006-06-01 2006

As barleymeal is hard to come by, I bought some fine oatmeal and used this in McNeil's recipe for Bere or Barley Bannocks, replacing the beremeal/barley with the oat equivalent.

Oatmeal Bannock (Scones Part 1) 2006

Wheat was difficult to grow and so wheat flour was historically used much less frequently that barleymeal or oatmeal meal is a less finely ground product than flour.

Oatmeal Bannock (Scones Part 1) 2006