Slip 3
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Slip 3
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Recipe or Medicine for Lavender Water, Lip Salve, an attached slip, and overleaf, half a page for Soft Pomatum.
Alkanet (Alkanna tinctoria).
Alkanet (Alkanna tinctoria).Description
Lavender Water
best rectified Spirits of wine 1 Quart
Oil of Lavender half an ounce
Essence of Ambergrease 1 scruple-
mixe’d well together, corke’d down close
& let to stand 2 months before it is used-
Lip Salve
Steep a pennyworth of Alkanet root in
2 ouncez of Sweet Oil- melt 1 ouncez of white wax
over a very slow fire- & strain
the oil from the Alkanet root upon
it, mix them together and pour the mix
-ture on the bottom of tea cups
which must first be wet with rose water
Obverse of slip
Soft Pomatum
Hogs lard 2lbs Mutton suet 1/2lb-
melt them gradually- pouring the
fat off as it melts- when melted
add 2 Ouncez Rose water & beat it
with the hand till it becomes
like a thick cream- add [2s] ┌two shillings┐worth
of perfume & when well mixed put
it in pots-
Pinned slip
Oil of Sweet Almonds an ounce and half,
Spirit of Salt ammoniac half an ounce;
Liquid Laudanum a quarter of an ounce.
Mix them for an Embrocation
best rectified Spirits of wine 1 Quart
Oil of Lavender half an ounce
Essence of Ambergrease 1 scruple-
mixe’d well together, corke’d down close
& let to stand 2 months before it is used-
Lip Salve
Steep a pennyworth of Alkanet root in
2 ouncez of Sweet Oil- melt 1 ouncez of white wax
over a very slow fire- & strain
the oil from the Alkanet root upon
it, mix them together and pour the mix
-ture on the bottom of tea cups
which must first be wet with rose water
Obverse of slip
Soft Pomatum
Hogs lard 2lbs Mutton suet 1/2lb-
melt them gradually- pouring the
fat off as it melts- when melted
add 2 Ouncez Rose water & beat it
with the hand till it becomes
like a thick cream- add [
of perfume & when well mixed put
it in pots-
Pinned slip
Oil of Sweet Almonds an ounce and half,
Spirit of Salt ammoniac half an ounce;
Liquid Laudanum a quarter of an ounce.
Mix them for an Embrocation
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Creator
Charlotte Starkie
Publisher
Gillespie Family
Date
1782 to 1808
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Site licence
Format
Handwritten loose item
Language
English
Type
Paper Document
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Lavender Water
best rectified Spirits of wine 1 QtOil of Lavender half an ounce
Essence of Ambergrease 1 scruple-
mix’d well together, cork’d down close & let to stand 2 months before it is used-
Lip Salve
Steep a pennyworth of Alkanet root in 2 oz of Sweet Oil- melt 1 oz of white wax over a very slow fire- & strain the oil from the Alkanet root upon it, mix them together and pour the mixture on the bottom of tea cups which must first be wet with rose water-Soft Pomatum
Hogs lard 2lbs Mutton suet 1/2 lb- melt them gradually- pouring the fat off as it melts- when melted add 2 Oz Rose water & beat it with the hand till it becomes like a thick cream- add two shillings worth of perfume & when well mix'd put it in pots
Oil of Sweet Almonds an ounce and half,Spirit of Salt ammoniac half an ounce;
Liquid Laudanum a quarter of an ounce.
Mix them for an Embrocation
Alkanna tinctoria, the dyer's alkanet or alkanet, is a herb in the borage family. Its main notability is its roots are used as a red dye.
I think with the red dye, that this is now called Lipstick
Laudanum is Opium and a poison
I think with the red dye, that this is now called Lipstick
Laudanum is Opium and a poison
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Charlotte Starkie, “Slip 3,” The Huntroyd Receipts, accessed January 19, 2021, https://huntroyd.co.uk/items/show/132.
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