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Recipes from Mother Natures Garden

Suet Recipes: For the Birds & Other Small Animals

Here's a fun project the whole family can enjoy. Not only will you have fun fixing up these tasty treats, but you will get to enjoy the wild life that stops by all winter long. Materials will vary according to the recipe you choose and your choice of container for the suet mix. Before you begin, it's a good idea to see what you have available as a container. See the following list of suggestions:

* Large pot used to melt suet

* Large mixing bowl to combine ingredients

* Heavy twine if hanging suet from a tree branch

* A nylon mesh onion bag is another way to hang suet.

* Roll the suet into small balls and simply throw them in the yard.

* Stuff pine cones and hang from tree branches using twine.

* Any size baking pan to use as a mold - lined with plastic wrap or tin foil. The suet will be cut into squares or slices and hung from a branch using an onion bag.

* Smear soft suet mixtures directly on tree trunks.

SUET

Suet is available at most grocery stores or at a butcher shop or you can trim excess fat off beef cuts and store it in the freezer until you have enough fat for your recipe. 

To prepare you suet:

1. Finely chop the fat or grind it with a meat grinder.

2. Heat the fat over a low flame until it is liquefied.

3. Strain the liquid through a fine cheesecloth.

4. Cool to harden.

5. REPEAT STEPS 2 & 3.

6. Let suet cool to harden and then store it in a covered container in the freezer.

When your ready to prepare your recipe: Melt suet over low flame. Stir in ingredients. Pour into baking pan, roll into balls, or stuff pine cones (**see note). Refrigerate until hardened or store in the freezer.  

*Note: when using peanut butter I prefer Teddy Natural - this contains no salt or preservatives - just peanuts.

**Note: to prepare pine cones - line a cookie sheet with tin foil and place the pine cones on the foil. Heat them in the oven at no more than 250 degrees until the cones begin to dry and open up.

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Apple Pie

3 Cups Prepared Suet
1 Cup Whole Wheat Bread (dried & crumbled)
1/2 Cup Shelled Sunflower Seeds
1/4 Cup Millet
1/2 Cup Chopped Dried Apples

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Berry Berry

4 1/2 Cups Prepared Suet
3/4 Cups Finely Ground Cracker or Bread Crumbs
1/4 Cup White Proso Millet
1/2 Cup Hulled Sunflower Seed
1/4 Cup Chopped Cranberries, Raisins or Currants.

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Sweet Lovins

1/2 LB Prepared suet
1/3 Cup Black Oil Sunflower Seed
2/3 Cups Mixed Wild Bird Seed
1/8 Cup Chopped Peanuts or Chopped Pecans
1/4 Cup Raisins

Birder's Delight

1 LB Prepared suet
1 Cup Yellow Cornmeal
1 Cup Rolled Oats
1 Cup Chunky Peanut Butter (*see note)
1 Cup Mixed Wild Bird Seed
1 Cup Hulled Sunflower Seed or Chopped Pecans

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Nutty Crunch

2 LBS Prepared Suet
1/2 Cup Chunky Peanut Butter
1/1 Cup Shelled Sunflower Seeds or Chopped Pecans

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Peanut Delight

1 Cup Prepared Suet
1 Cup Peanut Butter
3 Cups Yellow Cornmeal
1/2 Cup Whole Wheat Flour

DON'T FORGET TO LEAVE SOME FRESH WATER FOR YOUR ANIMAL  FRIENDS.

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