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Lip-Salve a LA Rose

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and rose work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 153 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Lip-Salve a LA Rose

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Digest the alkanet root in olive oil with gentle heat.

  2. Add suet and lard, mixing well.

  3. Strain the mixture.

  4. While cooling, stir in rose-water and ottar of roses.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Olive + rosetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together153 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

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