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Katydid's bird suet
3 cups corn meal
3 cups flour
3 cups oatmeal
2 cups birdseed
1 or 2 cups of lard (i use lard and not shortening)
1 or 2 cups chunky peanut butter (regular works but the
birds like the peanuts in the chunky)
These amounts are not exact. Adjust the lard and peanut butter
amounts until it all sticks together.
You can melt the peanut butter and lard in the microwave and mix
everything else in. Or you can just dump everything together in a
big bowl and mix it up by hand. Then put it in a pan and put it in
the refrigerator until it gets chilled. Cut it to whatever size you
want it and put it in suet cages, on top of a stump, or in the joint
of a tree limb. After the "human" smell has a chance to get off the
mix, the birds will gobble it up.
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One recipe for homemade suet is the Carolina Wren Cake.
This recipe is easy and fun to make, and wrens, as well as other
birds, will appreciate the offering!
Begin by purchasing sunflower seed, rolled oats, plain cornmeal, and
a block of lard from the grocery store. In your blender, lightly
chop the seed and oats. Dump the seed blend into a medium bowl where
you have added a half a cup of cornmeal and mix together.
Next, add one third of the block of lard right on top of the mixture
and place in the microwave. Microwave only long enough to soften the
lard not melt it!
Once cooled enough to work, the mixture can be patted out on wax
paper and formed into blocks that will fit into your suet feeder or
you may merely smear the mixture onto trees or stumps.
By Candace Cummings. Clemson Extension Urban Wildlife Specialist
Jesse Perez's Bird Cakes
from rec.birds, January 7, 1996
Most of the time I just put out rendered suet, but for fun I use the
following bird cake receipe:
1 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 cup lard
2 cups quick cook oats
2 cups cornmeal
1 cup flour
1/3 cup sugar
Melt the peanut butter and lard and add remaining ingredients and
cool.
Out of all the recipes that I have tried, this is by far the most
popular in my yard. The Brown Thrashers hang upside down on the suet
cage to get at it. It's a hilarious scene to watch!
Sharon Smith's Sure-fire Suet Mix
from the mail, Jan 28, 1997
This is SOOOOOO easy to make, and my birds love it...from
woodpeckers to chickadees to thrashers to sparrows.
1 part peanut butter (I use crunchy)
1 part shortening
1 part flour
3 parts cornmeal
1 part cracked corn
I also add black oil sunflower seeds and/or mixed seed
As I say, it's very easy to make and quite a popular item. (Last
year I was given some store-bought suet cakes, and my birds refused
to eat them! I finally broke them apart and combined with the above
recipe!)
Birdie Cookie Dough Suet
1 cup flour
1 cup shortening
1 cup peanut butter
4 cups corn meal
Mix everything together as you would cookie dough with an electric
mixer. Store in the refrigerator. To use, simply pack into suet
feeders.
Tried and True Suet Treat
1 cup crunchy peanut butter
2 cups quick cooking oats
2 cups cornmeal
1 cup lard (no substitutions)
1 cup white flour
1/4 cup sugar
Melt lard and peanut butter together, then stir in everything else.
Pour mixture into containers to about 1 1/2 inches thick. Freeze.
Cut into squares to fit your suet feeder.
The Best Ever Suet Recipe!
. 1 Cup Lard (not shortening)
. 1 Cup Peanut Butter
. 3 Cups Cornmeal
. 1 Cup Flour
. Bird Seed, Chopped Nuts and/or Raisins (optional)
Melt the lard and stir in the rest of the ingredients. Press into
holes drilled in a log or mold it into a cake for a traditional suet
basket. Can be used year round.
A Good Suet Recipe
2 cups lard
1 cup crunchy peanut butter (non-crunchy will work also)
2 cups plain oatmeal
1 cup flour
1 cup meal
1/3 cup sugar (optional)
1 cup black-oil sunflower seeds (optional)
Put the lard and peanut butter together and melt in the microwave
until the lard had become a liquid. Then add the other ingredients
one at a time making sure each is well mixed in. If this is to be
fed during warm weather, the flour is a must to keep the mixture
from melting and running in the hot sun. The meal should help with
that as well.
If the sunflower seeds are added, the Nuthatches, Titmice and
Woodpeckers seem to enjoy picking them out and eating them.
Next pour the mixture into 5 or 6 small suet trays (the type filled
with suet that is available in stores), or pour it into small milk
or juice cartons, adding a string of yarn etc. from which to hang
them. Place in the fridge overnight. If the cartons were used, tear
off the paper carton and hang from a tree branch or feeder.
Now sit back and enjoy the birds.
Birds have a lot of surface area for their body volume. Even though
they are well insulated they lose heat (calories) very rapidly
across that surface. The following high calorie food supplement will
help them to replace the calories they lose on cold winter days.
Suet for the Birds
1 cup lard
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup flour
1 cup oat meal
1/3 cup sugar
2 cups cornmeal
1 cup birdseed (optional)
Melt lard and peanut butter, then add the remaining ingredients. You
can put it into a 9x13 pan or plastic container to let it set-up.
Cut it into blocks that will fit your feeder. This suet will freeze
well.
Sandi Kelley brought Martha Sergent's Suet recipe to the Nature
Group.
Suet Recipe 1
2 cups lard or crisco
2 cups crunchy peanut butter
melt these together in microwave and add
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 cups cornmeal
4 cups rolled oats
2 cups chopped apples
Add raisins and nuts if desired
Mix, spread in pans, cool & cut. Bag & freeze.
Suet Recipe 2
4 cups cornmeal
1 cup shortening
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup peanut butter (crunchy)
Combine all ingredients and mix well. Spoon into empty yogurt
containers and allow to dry. place in onion bag and hang for birds.
Or spoon into empty pie pan allow to dry, and place in suet feeder
Peanut Butter Suet (Recipe 3)
Peanut Butter Suet
2 cups Lard
2 cups Crunchy Peanut Butter
2 cups Cornmeal
4 cups Oatmeal-Old Fashion
2 cups Sugar
2 cups flour
2 apples
1/2 box raisins
Melt lard and peanunt butter in microwave. Add melted mixture to
other ingredients and stir. I add 2 apples (diced), 1/2 box raisins,
and a handful of walnuts. Mixture should be thick. Pour into 2
greased 9 X 13 cake pans, cool in fridge. Cut into squares that fit
your suet feeders. I then put squares into plastic baggies and
freeze them individually. You can also add bird seed and other
fruits if desired.
Suet Recipe 4
1 cup lard
1 cup crunchy peanutbutter
1 cup plain flour
2 cups cornmeal
2 cups one minute oatmeal
1/3 cup sugar
Melt the lard and peanut butter in the microwave 90 sec to 2 min to
melt.
Add all other ingredients and stir until well mixed. You may add
other nutrients such as dried fruit pieces, more peanuts, various
seeds such as blackoil sunflower etc.
This goes fast in my neighborhood. You can use old store bought suet
containers as your milds and then they fit perfectly into store
bougt suet cages. I use a tupperware container that is square and
then cut it into four equal pieces that fit the suet cages
perfectly.
A great recipe from J.Marty!
PEANUT BUTTER SUET
INGREDIENTS:
2 cups crunchy peanut butter
4 cups quick cook oats
2 cups lard
4 cups corn meal
2 cups white flour
2/3 cup sugar
DIRECTIONS:
Melt peanut butter and lard in a large pot over a low flame. Add the
remaining ingredients. Place the mixture into square freezer
containers, packing firmly to approx. 1-1/2 inches thick. Cover and
freeze. Raisins or chopped nuts are optional.
Winter Suet Mix
Melt Together:
1/3 Cup Bacon Fat
1/4 Cup Peanut Butter
Add:
2 Cups Cornmeal
1 Cup Breadcrumbs
1/2 Cup Peanuts
1/2 Cup Birdseed
NO Melt Suet
A recipe I use in the summer, does not melt, and the birds seem to
love it;
1 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 cup suet or lard
2 cups "quick cook" oats, (I'm sure any will do)
2 cups cornmeal
1 cup white flour
Melt lard & peanut butter.
Stir in other ingredients. If it seems runny, add more flour.
Fill small plastic margarine containers about 1/2 full, then freeze.
Remove from container; wrap, keep in freezer.(Or use any method you
like!)
This suet is nice when weather is warmer.
Contributed by Carl Cole
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