HOMEMADE BIRDSEED CAKES
Source of Recipe
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List of Ingredients
1 pound lard (I used about 2 cups as I could only find a 2.5 lb tub and had to improvise)
18 oz jar crunchy peanut butter
1 cup raisins
1 cup mixed birdseed
6 cups cornmeal
5 cups all purpose flourRecipe
1. Melt the lard in the microwave. (I did 2 minutes and 20 seconds in a glass mixing bowl). Once melted, it will be a clear liquid.
2. Pour the melted lard into a very large mixing bowl. Stir in the peanut butter, raisins, and birdseed.
3. Next stir in the cornmeal, and then stir in the flour. Toward the end of this process it works a little better to just dig in with your hands to mix it up.
4. Spread the mixture in a 9×13 cake pan and cool. Once it has cooled, cut into 6 square blocks. Store in the freezer in ziploc bags.
As stated in the original recipe, this did indeed make 6 blocks that are about 4″ square by 1-1/2″ thick that fit quite nicely into my feeder.
Once I had these all made up I was little surprised at how you really can’t see too much of the birdseed. It does have a much higher proportion of cornmeal and flour. I’m very curious to see how the birds react to the mixture.
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