Marty, when I was a Boy Sprout (long ago), I made a fire starter by taking a 1/2 pint paint can, tearing newspaper strips just wide enough to fit in it on edge and filling it with rolled newspaper. Then I poured bacon grease into it until it just wouldn't absorb anymore. Put a long bali on it, set it in the fire ring, stand twigs and small wood up around it, toss in a wooden kitchen match.
Once the fir was going good, I'd fish it out, put the lid on it to extinguish it, and when it cooled off put it back in the bread sack I packed it in. It worked great, smelled wonderful.