Scots Barley Sugar

• barley
• liquorice
• sugar
• water
• egg (to clarify)
• butter

Wash a little barley and put it on with boiling water; let it boil a little, then turn out that water and pour more boiling water on it. Put in a pennyworth of liquorice stick, let it boil till all the strength is out of it; then pour off the liquor and let it stand to settle and pour all the clear from the grounds; then take half a mutchkin (pint) of it to the pound of sugar; clarify it with w