Unlike pureed soups, which often have lots of added butter and cream, this old-fashioned mushroom-barley soup gets its flavor from good-quality beef stock. Grace Parisi a former senior test kitchen ...

Heat oven to 375 F and place the rack in the middle of the oven. Bring the beer to a simmer, mix the porcinis and figs in a bowl and pour beer over top. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let stand for ...

Both barley and rye lack the extensible gluten to hold the shape of a bold, jaunty loaf. But let them serve submissively as a background flavour, sour with rye and dusty with barley, and you have the ...

Barley is comfortably common. You can find it easily, often sold in generic packages, sitting next to the bags of split peas and navy beans on the lowest shelf at your unfancy neighborhood supermarket ...