Tallow Candles

I've been wanting to try making these to see if they really work.  We have a lot more tallow than wax at our place, as we raise beef cattle and my bees died out last year.  So...
We made a wick from cotton string, boric acid and sea salt.

Those white things are boric acid that isn't dissolved yet.
Then I rendered the tallow.

After drying the wick, we braided it as tight as we could.

Then we tried making a hand dipped candle.  I only rendered enough tallow for about two candles.  We dipped and dipped and it seemed to take forever.  So, being the patient person I am, decided not to make a hand dipped candle.  I have since learned that it does take time and you're better off doing a large batch at one time.
We ended up making a jar candle.

Looks rather primitive, but it worked.

We put some rain scented fragrance oil in the tallow to help it smell more "pleasing".  I'm happy with the way it turned out.  It burns well, the oil doesn't put the flame out, it doesn't have much of a scent.  So now we know-tallow works for candles.