Gardening > Birds & Bird HousesDecember 20, 2011
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Homemade Suet

Flicker at suet feeder.
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I just got done making suet for the wild birds. It is cheap enough to buy, but gets even cheaper if you make your own. The following is my recipe.

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup lard
  • 1 cup peanut butter (I like to use the chunky)
  • 1 cup flour
  • 5 cups cornmeal
  • add ins as desired - sunflower seeds, bird seed, raisins, dry fruit, millet, rolled oats, or nuts

Directions:

I pour into molds from suet that I bought in the past. After you have melted the lard and peanut butter and put in our add ins, you freeze the molds. They freeze well for up to 2 months. If you want you can make a small batch and smear on pine cones and dangle them from a tree.

By Linda from Bellevue, NE

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12/23/2011

One of my best memories is when I used to boil water, crisco and sugar together. After boiling it I would pour in oatmeal. I would also add slices of bread. I would put this in a butter container and hang it lopsided from the fence. At the time, I could see out my sliding glass door. It was not only attractive to birds but also to little animals who would climb the fence to get it This was while I was up in IL.

Such fun to watch the animals have winter food!

Blessings, Robyn

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