- Making a bacon candle.

From the great TEOTWAWKI Blog comes a how-to for making bacon fat candles. 

All it takes is the fat or drippings from 3/4's of a pack of bacon, a wick, a paperclip to hold the wick and a can to hold it all.

It couldn't be simpler and it will burn for something like three hours.

It's a great lesson that was probably long forgotten till it was resurrected by a resourceful person.

Thanks for the tip and thanks for letting me pass it on.

You can find more uses for bacon fat and free downloadable chapters of pioneer and settler how-to and DIY at Pioneer Handbooks .

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