Name: Lip-salve
Ingredients: one ounce white wax; one ounce sweet oil; a piece of alkanet root to color; one drachm spermaceti

Lip-salve

Ingredients

one ounce white wax
one ounce sweet oil
a piece of alkanet root to color
one drachm spermaceti

Directions

Melt one ounce white wax, one ounce sweet oil, one drachm spermaceti, and throw in a piece of alkanet root to color it, and when cooling, perfume it with oil rose, and then pour it into small white jars or boxes.

By F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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. See the original page.