white barley on top

'[Hecamede] now drew up for them a polished table
With blue enamelled feet, and set on it
A bronze basket, and next to it an onion
Grated for their drink, and pale green honey,
And sacred barley meal. Then she set down
A magnificent cup the old man had brought from home,
Studded with gold rivets. It had four handles,
With a pair of golden doves pecking at each,
And a double base beneath. . . .
Into this cup Hecamede, beautiful as a goddess,
Poured Pramnian wine, grated goat cheese into it
With a brazed grater, and sprinkled white barley on top.
She motioned for them to drink.'

'Homer, the Iliad, translated by Stanley Lombardo, 1997.