How to Make Candles Out of Lard
Ingredients
Directions
Dissolve the alum and saltpetre in a metal pot and boil until fully dissolved.
Add the lard and boil slowly, stirring often.
Continue boiling until the scum, resembling egg yolks, falls and sticks to the pot.
Strain the mixture and let it cool.
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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