This is a great simple recipe for bird lovers who enjoy making their own suet cakes. And mix whatever i have on hand into the mix and the bacon grease is usually pretty well diluted down.
You can purchase suet balls or beef fat trimmings from your local butcher fairly cheaply.
How to make bird suet from bacon fat.
Strain the liquid fat through cheesecloth or a very fine mesh to remove any particles.
Also if you add anytime you make suet cakes 1 half to 1 cup of cayenne pepper to the mix it will deter squirrels and chipmunks.
Melt the lard and peanut butter together either on the stove or in the microwave.
How to make a diy suet bird feeder to help hungry birds in wintertime.
We did find this recipe for homemade suet cakes made with lard but we.
The rendered fat is used as a key ingredient to a homemade suet recipe which uses animal fat peanut butter quick oats cornmeal and flour.
We use the you do it suet silicone mold to create our suet cakes.
The original recipe suggests pouring into a square pan about 2 inches deep or spreading onto tree limbs.
You can also use bacon and pork meat drippings.
Combine the ingredients and cool.
I just put it into.
Heat the chopped fat on low until it is fully liquefied.
Pour the fat into molds or containers and allow it to cool.
Chop the fat into small pieces or run it through a meat grinder.
We also add this to our bird food mix when before we fill the feeders.
Remove the pot of rendered fat from the hot stove.
We just pour excess fat right from the pan into the silicone mold mix in bird seed nuts fruit etc.
Use pliers to bend the tip of a wire into a knot that wont slip through the hole and thread the wire through the can for hanging.
Punch a hole in the side wall of the can with a nail.
For this instructable we used bacon fat beef suet peanut butter peanuts.
Then release a perfectly sized suet cake to fit into your feeder.
Over medium heat render melt the fat.
The birds will not know it is there but the pepper burns the squirrels and chipmunks tongues which birds do not have.
I have frozen and refrigerated bacon greaselots.
I usually mix equal parts of suet or lard or bacon grease or tallow or shortning with peanut butter and add some chopped nuts and then thicken it with cornmeal and rolled oats or grits or flour to make a paste.
I was hoping to make suet cakes for birds using it and a little paraffin for the base and adding birdseed.
We dont eat a lot of bacon or fatty meats anymore but do save the fats and freeze them.
How to make bird suet cakes step 1.
Combine all of the dry ingredients.
The simplest way to package bacon grease for bird feeding is in metal tuna or cat food cans.
The leftover cracklings are also used to feed wild birds.
Lard from the grocery store is another option but you should know that its much softer and may melt on warmer or sunnier days.
Add the dry ingredients to the melted fats.
Oooh were curious to see what our readers have to say on this one.
Does anyone have a recipe or a good experience with such as thissent by mary anneditor.
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