When i have enough i then melt it down and make a seed cake with it.
Bird seed cakes with lard.
1 cup crunchy.
Then release a perfectly sized suet cake to fit into your feeder.
The containers i usually find in the store are 2 5 lb size.
We just pour excess fat right from the pan into the silicone mold mix in bird seed nuts fruit etc.
Pour the melted mixture into the dry ingredients and stir.
Fat peanut butter nuts dried fruit corn meal bird seed for this instructable we used bacon fat beef suet peanut butter peanuts raisins cracked corn and later remembered to add corn meal oatmeal and whole sunflower seeds.
This will usually be the most expensive option as these cakes have already been processed and shaped for feeders.
Making your own suet cakes is easy affordable and they re sure to turn your backyard into a bird watching hot spot this summer.
We had about six cups of rendered melted fat and we added roughly one cup of each dry ingredient.
We use the you do it suet silicone mold to create our suet cakes.
Add the other ingredients to the bowl and mix them together with your finger tips.
Either they are formed around knots on a piece of string or around pine cones.
1 cup of bird seeds half a pack of lard or suet pine cones optional string optional how to make the bird cakes.
Purchase rendered plain suet cakes or chunks from a wild bird supply store garden center or pet store.
Stir until completely combined.
Fill your yoghurt pots with bird cake mixture and put them in the fridge to set for an hour or so.
The lard is quite useful to the birds in winter as it is an excellent source of calories for them.
But instead of lard what i do is simply keep a plastic container in my fridge into which gets poured every bit of fat from the frying or oven pans when i cook.
There are two options for these hanging feeders.
Lard is usually sold in containers labeled by weight so make sure you get a container of at least 1 5 lb size.
3 1 2 cups wild bird seed 1 cup quick oats 1 2 cup corn meal ice cube tray.
Keep adding the seed raisin cheese mixture and squidging it until the fat holds it all together.
Hang your speedy bird cakes from trees or your bird table.
The 3 cups of lard is equal to about 1 1 2 pounds.
What you need makes several.
These cakes can be used as is or can be melted down to be used in more specialized suet recipes.
However birds are usually fond of the black oil sunflower seeds so they re a nice addition to the recipe.
Combine the shortening and nut butter in a separate bowl and melt.
1 spray silicon mold with cooking spray.
A suet cake cage in your backyard can attract many different fun to watch birds such as woodpeckers wrens robins orioles jays and more.
Mix the dry ingredients of bird seed oats and corn meal together and set aside.
