Beef Barley Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 c. minced onion
5 Tbsp. butter
1 c. medium pearl barley
3 cans boiling beef consomme
1/2 lb. mushrooms, sliced
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
garlic salt to taste

Preparation

Saute onion in 3 tablespoons butter until soft but not brown. Stir in barley; cook over medium heat for 3 to 5 minutes, or until barley begins to brown.
Stir constantly.
Add hot consomme very slowly; barley will sizzle.
Cook over lowest heat until barley has absorbed liquid (45 minutes to 1 hour).
Saute mushrooms.
Put in barley and season.
Cook a few minutes together.