Her cult included the annual feeding of a sacred snake with barley cakes by virgin maidens.

The people in Athens ate simply, usually barley cakes, onions, fish, and fruit.

She brought him some barley cakes and a drink of hot wine mixed with honey, and he relaxed.

He looked up with his mouth full; he was devouring barley cake and raisins and cheese like a schoolboy back from the wrestling class.

Within the great hall a table had been set, a jug of water and a barley cake before each of thirty places.

The man he'd killed had some flat barley cakes in his belt pouch.

That evening, he sat down to barley cakes and garlicky sausage filched from an Algarvian sergeant he'd captured.

The barley cakes, having become solid, are then broken up in the pot with a large, flat, wooden ladle and mixed to form one large piece.

People eat simple, healthy foods, "barley cakes, goat cheese, and figs."

I've brought you some barley cakes and bread, but you must mind that your father doesn't get to know of it.