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Lip-Salve

From Original White House Cookbook, 1887

Serves 8

Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 366. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LIP-SALVE. Melt one ounce white wax, one ounce sweet oil, one drachm sperma- ceti, and throw in a piece of alkanet root to color it

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