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