Gardening > Birds & Bird HousesAugust 29, 2007

Not-So-Sloppy Summer Suet

Ingredients:

4 cups cornmeal
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup shortening

Directions:

Combine all the ingredients; mix well. Put in an onion bag or suet feeder, or pack in pine cones or into the bark of trees. Then watch the birds enjoy this hearty feast.

By Mythi from Silverdale WA

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By 11/25/2010

Could a person cook the cornmeal that way it would not swell up? Then add Oats and bird seed in it.

By 08/29/2007

Isn't cornmeal not the best thing for a bird? When the water hits it, then it swells. Wouldn't this be better with bird seed?

By 08/29/2007

Isn't cornmeal not the best thing for a bird? When the water hits it, then it swells. Wouldn't this be better with bird seed?

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