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PRINTMuffin Firestarters: A Good Gift and Way to Start a Fire
Whether you want to make a fire in your fireplace or in an outdoor fire ring, these easy-to-make fire-starters help get a fire going quickly. They also look cute enough to give as gifts when placed in a round tin.
Materials List:
Muffin tin
Paper baking cups
Candle wicking or birthday cake candles
Cedar shavings (Located in the pet supply aisle, pet bedding)
Beeswax or paraffin
Directions:
1. Line a muffin tin with paper baking cups.
2. Melt beeswax or paraffin in a double boiler on the stove over low heat. (Fill the bottom pot to ½ full with water. Add broken chunks of wax to top pot.) Stir slowly, until wax is melted.
3. While wax melts, fill paper-baking cups in muffin tin with cedar shavings.
4. Ladle hot, melted wax into muffin cups.
5. Place about a 2” length of candle wick into the center of each muffin or one birthday cake candle.
6. Allow to dry completely. Remove waxed muffins from metal muffin tin and store with kindling.
To Use:
To start a fire, place one muffin fire-starter in your fireplace, firepit or fire ring on top of pinecones, twigs, newspaper or other kindling and light with a match. Add more kindling and wood on top and you’ll have a nice fire going.
©By Deborah S. Tukua, all rights reserved.
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