Food 4 Pets

Bird Cake

1 pound suet, cut into small pieces
1 cup yellow cornmeal
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup chunk-style peanut butter
1 cup mixed wild birdseed
1 cup sunflower seeds
Muffin pans

Melt suet over low heat. Stir in remaining ingredients to blend. Pour into paper-lined muffin pans and chill until hardened.

Bird Bread

2 cups melted peanut butter, bacon
 grease, meat grease or other fat
2 cups cornmeal or stale dry cereal blended into crumbs
Warm water
2 to 3 cups wild birdseed
Raisins, nutmeats or chopped peanuts

Bagel Bird Feeder

1 day-old bagel
Lard
Birdseed
Jute or string (for hanging

Spread entire bagel with lard. Place birdseed on a paper plate. Roll the bagel in the birdseed. Tie jute or string through the hole of the bagel to hang the bagel. The birds can eat the whole thing!

A Bird’s Delight recipe

1 1/4 pounds suet
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
1/2 cup crushed peanuts
1/2 cup cracked corn kernels

Melt suet in the oven or saucepan (yields about 2 cups liquid fat). Stir in peanuts, sunflower seeds and corn. Spoon into a 4-cup heart-shaped mold (or two 2-cup molds); insert a drinking straw at the top (for rope). Cool in the refrigerator until solid.