Wild Bird Suet Cakes
Select a medium sized pinecone to fill, or prepare a suet cake.
Here are recipes for both soft suet and suet cakes.
Soft Suet Recipe
4 1/2 cups ground fresh suet
3/4 cup dried and fine ground bakery goods
(whole-wheat or cracked-wheat bread or crackers are best) 1/2 cup shelled sunflower seeds
1/4 cup millet
1/4 cup dried and chopped fruit (currants, raisins, or berries)
3/4 cup dried and fine ground meat (optional)
Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat.
Mix the rest of the ingredients together in a large bowl.
Allow the suet to cool until slightly thickened, then stir it into the mixture in the bowl. Mix thoroughly.
Pour or pack into forms or suet feeders; smear onto tree trunks or overhanging limbs and branches; or pack into pine cones.
Hard Suet Cake
1/2 lb. fresh ground suet
1/3 cup sunflower seed
2/3 cup wild bird seed (mix)
1/8 cup chopped peanuts
1/4 cup raisins
Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat. Allow it to cool thoroughly, then reheat it.
Mix the rest of the ingredients together in a large bowl.
Allow the suet to cool until slightly thickened, then stir it into the mixture in the bowl. Mix thoroughly.
Pour into pie pan or form, or pack into suet feeders.
Optional or substitute ingredients: millet (or other birdseed), cornmeal, cooked noodles, chopped berries, dried fruit.
Soft Peanut Butter Cake
1 cup fresh ground suet
1 cup peanut butter
3 cups yellow corn meal
1/2 cup white or whole-wheat flour
Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat.
Add peanut butter, stirring until melted and well blended.
Mix the rest of the ingredients together in a large bowl.
Allow the suet-peanut- butter blend to cool until slightly thickened, then stir it into the mixture in the bowl. Mix thoroughly.
Pour or pack into forms or suet feeders; smear onto tree trunks or overhanging limbs and branches; or pack into pine cones.
Hard Peanut Butter Mix I
2 pounds fresh ground suet
1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter
1/2 cup coarse-chopped shelled sunflower seeds
Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat.
Add peanut butter, stirring until melted and well blended.
Stir in the sunflower seeds. Mix thoroughly.
Pour into 9 x 13 cake pan and cool
Cut into cakes that fit suet feeder
Individually wrap the remaining cakes and store in freezer
Hard Peanut Butter Mix II
2 cup fresh ground suet
1 cup peanut butter
2 cups yellow corn meal
2 cups fine cracked corn
Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat. Allow it to cool thoroughly; then reheat it.
Add peanut butter, stirring until melted and well blended.
Add dry ingredients to the suet-peanut- butter blend, and mix well.
Pour into forms or suet-feeders, and cool until hardened.
Suet Mix II
1 part peanut butter - smooth or crunchy
1 part shortening
1 part flour
3 parts cornmeal
1 part cracked corn
You may also add black oil sunflower seeds and/or mixed seed
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