Cooking & Baking
Related: About this forumNot for people but the birds love this stuff.
The birds in my back yard love this stuff. I suggest you make a double or triple recipe tho--they go thorough it fast.
No Melt Suet
1 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 cup lard
2 cups quick cook oats
2 cups cornmeal
1 cup white flour
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup raisins
1 cup birdseed mix
Melt the lard & peanut butter, mix in the rest. Pour into a 9x13 pan and cool. Cut into squares that fit your suet feeders. If the mix is too dry and crumbly re-heat and add more peanut butter & lard. If too soft re-heat and add cornmeal etc.
Everything loves this stuff.
jonno99
(2,620 posts)flamin lib
(14,559 posts)Wood peckers, jays, chickadees, wrens, dove, every song bird known to man. Just not humming birds.
jonno99
(2,620 posts)Thanks again, I'm gonna have to try it.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)jonno99
(2,620 posts)japple
(9,833 posts)around just to eat it. I use more peanut butter and no flour or sugar. I have put in just about everything that was getting ready to expire in my cabinets (that birds can handle)--sunflower seeds, dried fruit/nuts, molasses, grits, quinoa, etc.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)I had a meal worm colony for lizard food, and I would often wind up with way more than it ate. If I had an abundance of mealworms at the time I was making suet cakes, I would put a bunch of them in the freezer to make them go to sleep forever before putting them into the mix. The bluebirds and woodpeckers really liked them.
japple
(9,833 posts)now and can hear them singing to the parents "we's hongry...feed us!"