Name: Lady E. Conyngham’s Lip Honey
Ingredients: 2 ounces fine honey; 1 ounce purified wax; ½ ounce silver litharge; ½ ounce myrrh; milk of roses or Eau de Cologne (to taste)

Why it works: Honey and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,336 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity. The science ↓

Lady E. Conyngham’s Lip Honey

Ingredients

Directions

Mix honey, purified wax, silver litharge, and myrrh over a slow fire.
Once melted, add milk of roses or Eau de Cologne to your preference.
Store the mixture for use.

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.

Honey + milktop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,336 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

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Lady E. Conyngham’s Lip Honey