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20 years ago

I also posted below as you will see - I am now looking for a recipe to make birdloving ornaments for our Natural Christmas Trees that will be sold at our bazaar. I know I have seen recipes using suet which is rolled in all sorts of goodies but can't remember all the ingredients. Would love to hear any ideas and recipes on this. There are so many bird lovers out there (including me) and I think this could be a great selling item at our charity bazaar.

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penny1947
20 years ago
Materials for bird seed ornaments

Peanut Butter
Suet (look for this at your local grocery store's meat counter or deli)
Cornmeal or Cracked Corn
Shortening
Raffia
Assorted Nuts and Seeds
Bird-friendly food like cereal, bread slices, peanuts

Creating Hard Suet
Simply mix together 1 cup of peanut butter, 3 cups of suet, and 2-4 cups of either cornmeal or cracked corn.

Creating the Ornaments
Use a cookie cutter to form the suet mixture into a desired shape then dip into a seed mixture of your choice. Or, place the suet mixture into an ice cream cone, and decorate the top with seeds. Finally, cut an orange in half and remove the fruit. Place the suet mixture into the empty orange peel, and decorate the top with seeds. Finally, use raffia to hang the ornaments on the tree.

Creating Soft Suet Ornaments
Simply mix together 1 cup of peanut butter, 1 cup of shortening, and three cups of cornmeal until they form a paste. To make an ornament, simply use a cookie cutter to cut a shape out of a piece of bread. Let the bread dry overnight. Once the bread has dried, smear the soft-suet mixture onto the shape and then decorate with seeds. Or, smear the mixture onto a pine cone and decorate with seeds. As with the other hard-suet ornaments, use raffia to hang the ornaments on the tree.

Creating the Garland
Simply string pretzels, cereal, peanuts, popcorn, raisins, cranberries or other bird-friendly food onto a piece of raffia. Not only will the birds eat what you've strung, once spring arrives they can use the raffia to help build their nests.

THis is taken from the Girl Scouts web site

Below is another link with a similar recipe
Penny

Here is a link that might be useful: bird seed ornaments
dcdc
Original Author
20 years ago
Penny - Your great - Many thanks for this great post!!
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penny1947
20 years ago
With our very frigid temps right now, I am sure that all the birds will love them. Your right there are lots of bird lovers out there.
Penny
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