Strictly for the Birds

[GrannyG]

"Feed the Birdies"

2 cups bacon fat,lard, or cooking grease
1 cup Peanut Butter, smooth
1 cup Karo syrup ( white or dark)
1 cup oatmeal
4 cups corn meal

Melt down the bacon fat, lard, or grease as a base to hold the following ingredients together.Add the ingredients, and the end product will be a paste that you can work into holes in logs or other nooks and crannies of the trees for your favorite birds.

[jeanette]

i've got a bunch of old cornmeal that jerry's had since no one knows when.. i didn't want to throw it away because it seems so wastefull..

[GrannyG]

BIRD SUET

1 cup crunchy Peanut Butter
1 cup lard
2 cups quick cooking oats
2 cups corn meal
1 cup white flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 cup Sunflower seeds and maize or birdseed

Melt lard and peanut butter. Stir in the rest. Put into muffin pans. Allow to cool, then freeze. Put paper liners in the muffin pans and it is easier to get the suet out. Save your netting from onions, or grapes,etc. you get at the store, and put your muffin size seed treat in it and hang on the trees. The birds can perch and eat.