TALLOW

From Agepedia

TALLOW ; animal fat melted and separated from the fibrous matter mixed with it. (See Fat) Its quality depends partly on the animal from which it has been prepared, and partly on the care taken in its purification. It is firm, brittle, and has a peculiar heavy odor. When pure, it is white and nearly insipid; but the tallow tinge, and is divided, according to the degree of its purity and consistence, into candle and soap tallow. It is manufactured into candies and soap, and is extensively used in the dressing of leather, and in various processes of the arts. There were exported from Russia, in 1831, 4,091,544 poods (63 to a ton) of tallow. Large quantities are also exported from South America.