Making a pot of barley soup and lemon bars

[Warpy]

3. Call it a pottage, since that's how you're making it

It was standard fare for anybody who wasn't rich enough to afford roasts and varied seasonally, pottage and bread being the standard diet, varied only by bread and cheese, toasted at the fire.

Makes me wish I'd ordered some barley with today's groceries. I have the rest. Maybe I'll do a rich and thick skilly, instead. Sailors and people during WWII in England despised it, it was mostly oatmeal, water, and carrots, nothing else, thin and flavorless. Made with a solid meat stock and with plenty of onions, some garlic, and loads of veg, together with enough oatmeal to make it thick and creamy, it's super comforting in cold weather.

And it's COLD here in the high desert, days in the low 40s, nights in the teens.