Hair Oil (Red)

Ingredients

• Put a pint of olive oil
• a little alkanet root
• half a dram of otto of roses
• the same quantity of oil of rosemary

Method

1. 1

   Put the olive oil in a jar with alkanet root, heat it, and when the color is deep enough, let it cool.

2. 2

   Stir in the otto of roses and oil of rosemary.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for the million (1891), page 94. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HAIR OIL (RED). — Put a pint of olive oil into a jar with a little alkanet root, stand it in an oven or by the fire to get hot, and when the colour is deep enough, let it grow cold, then stir into the oil half a dram of otto of roses, and the same quantity of oil of rosemary

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