Trying to attract birds to your backyard?
Have you tried feeding the feathered friends?
Below is a really easy, inexpensive bird suet that the birds in my neighborhood love. I have seen all kinds of recipes but the recipe below is pretty fool proof—even for the novice cooks.
1 cup lard
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup flour
1 cup cornmeal
½ cup sunflower seeds
Melt the lard in a microwave until very soft.
Mix in the peanut butter. Slowly add in the dry ingredients until the mixture is a soft cookie dough state.
Pour into suet cake containers, bread pans, or just roll into large balls and freeze.
String or twine can be placed in the cookie dough for easy hanging on tree limbs. Two or three balls can be put in an onion bag and hung in the trees.
For variety you can add raisins or other dried fruit, nuts or berries to your mix.
If you need help or WANT to help make some bird suet cakes to sell at Rendezvous in October let me know.
Happy birding!
Katherine Becker
