Suet Recipes


Suet Granola
1/2 cup chopped rendered* suet
1/2 cup peanut butter
2-1/2 cups cornmeal
1 cup mixed birdseed

Combine ingredients and press into a jelly roll pan. Freeze until firm enough to crumble. Put the crumbles in a large bowl with some peanuts, birdseed, chopped apples, raisins and more chunks of suet. Mix well, then divide into single-serving containers and freeze until needed. To make even more substantial "granola," you might ad uncooked oatmeal, bran or pumpkin seeds.

* To render, melt suet over low heat in heavy pan, cool, reheat and cool again. While it's in its melted state, add other ingredients.

Homemade Suet Treat
1-1/2 cups peanut butter
1-1/2 cups corn meal
3 to 4 cups wild bird seed
3 cups rendered* suet

Add the first three ingredients into the rendered suet. Freeze in a cake or pie pan, cut into serving pieces as needed and put in a suet basket.

* To render, melt suet over low heat in heavy pan, cool, reheat and cool again. While it's in its melted state, add other ingredients.

Tried and True Suet Treat
1 cup crunchy peanut butter
2 cups quick cooking oats
2 cups cornmeal
1 cup lard (no substitutions)
1 cup white flour
1/4 cup sugar

Melt lard and peanut butter together, then stir in everything else. Pour mixture into containers to about 1-1/2 inches thick. Freeze. Cut into squares to fit your suet feeder.

Soft Suet Medley
4 1/2 cups ground fresh suet
3/4 cup dried and fine ground bakery goods
(whole-wheat or cracked-wheat bread or crackers are best)
1/2 cup shelled sunflower seeds
1/4 cup millet
1/4 cup dried and chopped fruit (currants, raisins, or berries)
3/4 cup dried and fine ground meat (optional)

Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat.
Mix the rest of the ingredients together in a large bowl.
Allow the suet to cool until slightly thickened, then stir it into the mixture in the bowl. Mix thoroughly.
Pour or pack into forms or suet feeders; smear onto tree trunks or overhanging limbs and branches; or pack into pine cones.

Hard Suet Tidbit Cakes
1/2 lb. fresh ground suet
1/3 cup sunflower seed
2/3 cup wild bird seed (mix)
1/8 cup chopped peanuts
1/4 cup raisins

Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat. Allow it to cool thoroughly, then reheat it.
Mix the rest of the ingredients together in a large bowl.
Allow the suet to cool until slightly thickened, then stir it into the mixture in the bowl. Mix thoroughly.
Pour into pie pan or form, or pack into suet feeders.
Optional or substitute ingredients: millet (or other birdseed), cornmeal, cooked noodles, chopped berries, dried fruit.

Soft Peanut Butter Suet Mix
1 cup fresh ground suet
1 cup peanut butter
3 cups yellow corn meal
1/2 cup white or whole-wheat flour

Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat.
Add peanut butter, stirring until melted and well blended.
Mix the rest of the ingredients together in a large bowl.
Allow the suet-peanut-butter blend to cool until slightly thickened, then stir it into the mixture in the bowl. Mix thoroughly.
Pour or pack into forms or suet feeders; smear onto tree trunks or overhanging limbs and branches; or pack into pine cones.

Hard Peanut Butter Suet Mix #1
2 pounds fresh ground suet
1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter
1/2 cup coarse-chopped shelled sunflower seeds

Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat.
Add peanut butter, stirring until melted and well blended.
Stir in the sunflower seeds. Mix thoroughly.
Pour into 9 x 13 cake pan and cool
Cut into cakes that fit suet feeder
Individually wrap the remaining cakes and store in freezer

Hard Peanut Butter Suet Mix #2
2 cup fresh ground suet
1 cup peanut butter
2 cups yellow corn meal
2 cups fine cracked corn

Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat. Allow it to cool thoroughly; then reheat it.
Add peanut butter, stirring until melted and well blended.
Add dry ingredients to the suet-peanut-butter blend, and mix well.
Pour into forms or suet-feeders, and cool until hardened.



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