Mayhorn's Suet Recipe

• 2 cups lard

• 1 cup crunchy peanut butter (non-crunchy will work also)

• 2 cups plain oatmeal

• 1 cup flour

• 1 cup meal

• 1/3 cup sugar (optional)

• 1 cup black-oil sunflower seeds (optional)

Put the lard and peanut butter together and melt in the microwave until the lard has become a liquid. Then add the other ingredients one at a time making sure each is well mixed in. If this is to be fed during warm weather, the flour is a must to keep the mixture from melting and running in the hot sun. The meal should help with that as well.

If the sunflower seeds are added, the Nuthatches, Titmice and Woodpeckers seem to enjoy picking them out and eating them.

Next pour the mixture into 5 or 6 small suet trays (the type filled with suet that is available in stores), or pour it into small milk or juice cartons, adding a string of yarn etc. from which to hang them. Place in the fridge overnight. If the cartons were used, tear off the paper carton and hang from a tree branch or feeder.

Now sit back and enjoy the birds.