The containers i usually find in the store are 2 5 lb size.
Bird seed cakes with lard.
However birds are usually fond of the black oil sunflower seeds so they re a nice addition to the recipe.
Hang your speedy bird cakes from trees or your bird table.
There are two options for these hanging feeders.
Whisk in corn syrup and mix well.
1 spray silicon mold with cooking spray.
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.
We just pour excess fat right from the pan into the silicone mold mix in bird seed nuts fruit etc.
2 on the stovetop over medium heat whisk gelatin and water until dissolved.
Stir until completely combined.
We had about six cups of rendered melted fat and we added roughly one cup of each dry ingredient.
This is a great simple recipe for bird lovers who enjoy making their own suet cakes.
Fill your yoghurt pots with bird cake mixture and put them in the fridge to set for an hour or so.
Keep adding the seed raisin cheese mixture and squidging it until the fat holds it all together.
A suet cake cage in your backyard can attract many different fun to watch birds such as woodpeckers wrens robins orioles jays and more.
We use the you do it suet silicone mold to create our suet cakes.
Mix the dry ingredients of bird seed oats and corn meal together and set aside.
The 3 cups of lard is equal to about 1 1 2 pounds.
When i have enough i then melt it down and make a seed cake with it.
What you need makes several.
Purchase rendered plain suet cakes or chunks from a wild bird supply store garden center or pet store.
The lard is quite useful to the birds in winter as it is an excellent source of calories for them.
1 cup crunchy.
Either they are formed around knots on a piece of string or around pine cones.
3 1 2 cups wild bird seed 1 cup quick oats 1 2 cup corn meal ice cube tray.
Then release a perfectly sized suet cake to fit into your feeder.
This will usually be the most expensive option as these cakes have already been processed and shaped for feeders.
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.
Making your own suet cakes is easy affordable and they re sure to turn your backyard into a bird watching hot spot this summer.
Pour the melted mixture into the dry ingredients and stir.
These cakes can be used as is or can be melted down to be used in more specialized suet recipes.
1 cup of bird seeds half a pack of lard or suet pine cones optional string optional how to make the bird cakes.
