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(Fwd) suet cakes



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From: "Jean Bohs" <wjbohs@intrex.net>
Subject: suet cakes
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:41:45 -0500

If you are interested, I use the following recipe for suet cakes.
They hold up quite well through the summer and winter although we must use
the squirrel proof cages.  I got the recipe from a birding magazine some
years ago.  We used beef suet in St. Louis, but as your correspondents said,
it is difficult to find here and does not hold up well.

Peanut Butter Suet

1 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 cup LARD  (not vegetable shortening)
1/3 cup sugar
1 cup flour
2 cups cornmeal
2 cups quick cook oats

Melt lard and PB, stir in rest of ingredients.  I pour it into four oblong
tofu containers - they are just the right size for the usual suet feeders.
Cool and store in freezer.

I have good luck with titmice, chickadees, downies, some warblers, and now,
kinglets, etc.  In the summer the bluebirds can get to it as well as red
bellied woodpeckers.

Thanks for all of the interesting information provided by the Carolina
Birders. 

Jean Bohs
Durham


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