Editing Tallow (section)

===Candles===
[[File:Candles (AM 1966.3-5).jpg|thumb|A tallow candle]]
Tallow once was widely used to make molded [[candle]]s before more convenient [[wax]] varieties became available and for some time after they continued to be a cheaper alternative. For those too poor even to avail themselves of homemade, molded tallow candles, the "tallow dip" a reed that had been dipped in melted tallow or sometimes a strip of burning cloth in a saucer/cresset of tallow grease was an accessible substitute. Such a candle was often simply called a "dip" or, because of its low cost, a "farthing dip"<ref>{{Cite book|title=Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable|author=E. Cobham Brewer|author-link=E. Cobham Brewer|publisher=Wordsworth Editions|year=2001|page=342|isbn=9781840223101}}</ref> or "penny dip".<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle for 1866|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2013|isbn=9781108054904|page=153}}</ref>