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Candles

Before electric lights, candles were heavily depended on to provide light. The candles are a combination of beeswax and beef tallow. Both would be mixed and combined together. The mixture would be poured into the candle molds after the molds had been strung with the wicks. The beeswax and beef tallow would harden in the molds overnight. The next morning, the formed candles would be pulled from the molds.