No-Melt Suet (For Birds)
Ready In: 10 mins
Yields: 5 cups
Ingredients
- 2 cups quick-cooking oats
- 2 cups cornmeal
- 1 cup lard do not use bacon grease
- 1 cup crunchy peanut butter
- some bird seed, preferably without shells
Directions
- Melt the lard and peanut butter together, either on the stove or in the microwave.
- Combine all of the dry ingredients.
- Add the dry ingredients to the melted fats.
- The original recipe suggests pouring into a square pan about 2 inches deep, or spreading onto tree limbs. I just put it into ziplock containers and scoop it out as needed to fill a screen type of feeder (See photos). I use my cookie scoop to take it out, but then mash and break up the scoops, because otherwise the squirrels can come and take a whole scoop at once, way too easily! I don't know if it would hold up well in cake form, as I haven't tried that, but it defintely doesn't melt or make a gloppy mess.
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