Mutton Suet Candles
Ingredients
Directions
Melt the mutton suet.
Add lime to the melted suet; it will fall to the bottom and remove impurities.
Mix one part of the purified suet with three parts of real wax.
Mold the mixture into candle shapes.
Allow to cool and harden.
Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).
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.
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