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[Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Robert Walton wrote:

> Lights. I use oil lamps if the lights go out. If the oil is gone, I
> guess I'd experiment in making candles from fat. Maybe just go to bed
> with the chickens.

A couple years ago I played around with beef tallow candles. I 
triple-rendered it (boil it with water, let it harden, scrape the dirt 
off, change water and reboil until clean). Tallow alone is soft and 
burns quickly, but I mixed in a little bit of beeswax and it made 
beautifully-long-burning, almost smoke-free candles.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga County, PA


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