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My recipe calls for 1 lb lard, 1 cup p. butter (I use crunchy), 1/3 c. sugar, 1 c. flour, 2 c. oatmeal, 1 c. cornmeal. Melt the lard & p. butter (careful...the P. butter can scorch quickly), then add all other ingredients and mix well. Add raisins or seeds if you like. I usually make a double batch and put in becel dishes and freeze till needed in my wire suet basket. It easily pops out of the becel dish. Maria Forman Debert, NS > > From: "Gloria Gilbert" <turtlevoice@ns.sympatico.ca> > Date: 2008/01/09 Wed PM 09:00:35 EST > To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] suet with flour - oops > > A pound of lard, maybe a cup of peanut butter, a handful of corn meal and a handful of oatmeal... add raisins if you like, or small birdseed... I mix this to a chunky consistency, and use in birch log feeders. The grains help to keep the stuff pasty when the sun wants to melt the lard. Suet is expensive. > > Gloria > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Randy Lauff > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:34 PM > Subject: [NatureNS] suet with flour - oops > > > Normally I buy my suet several kilos at a time from our butcher - it's quite a bit cheaper, though there is some work to get it to the birds (rendering, dispensing into the drilled logs, etc). Horror of horrors, our butcher was sold out, so two days ago, I resorted to buying one of those suet squares (some sort of cherry flavour). To get this into my suet logs, I had to melt it down, and was surprised to find how little suet there really was in that square...it was mostly seeds (millet, cracked corn) and cherry fragments. These are not exactly the things typical suet feeders are eating (I've never seen a chickadee, nuthatch or woodpecker on my cracked corn, and I don't recall them feeding on millet when I used to feed them that...of course, Blue Jays will eat essentially anything). > > Well, that was just a comment, but I found a bag of suet in the meantime in the grocery store, but when I got it home, realized it was Beef Suet (good) with Wheat Flour. This product is from Maple Leaf. Has anyone used it (for feeding the birds)? Comments? Off hand, I don't think the flour would be a bad thing for the birds...there's starch in seeds (some with much more than others) but I'm still curious if anyone's used it or not. The good news is the butcher is expecting the real stuff on Monday...but I've got to get through the weekend. > > Randy > _________________________________ > RF Lauff > Way in the boonies of > Antigonish County, NS. >
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