Very glad to see that people know not to use vegetable shortening. And read your peanut butter labels because nowadays they're putting some really bad stuff in peanut butter I use all natural.

You can buy beef suet from your butcher, or get animal lard. Vegetable shortening isn't good for anything. It's definitely not good for birds.

I'm making a log for the winter. Great idea and natural.

Great video ,,, I made up this recipe and I have to say it was a big hit at Thanksgiving dinner , although Grandma did say the Oats were sticking in her dentures .

I’ve made many different recipes, all of which my birds love. I support 9 widely spaced suet feeders. I always use dried mealworms, and also a little bit of good quality small kibble dog food. I also use a little cracked corn or coarse-ground corn meal, good bird seed mix, raisins, etc. The sky’s the limit! Go crazy! Oh yeah……don’t forget to add a dash of salt!

Love the log idea! Thanks :)

Thanks for the easy to do recipient and ideas!

Great work. Thank you.

Cornell Labs says: Do Not add vegetable shortening. It is made with hydrogenated vegetable oil.

Great presentation fellow bird nerds!! I want to try this very soon. Thanks.

Awesome idea

I just skimmed through this but did they mention using unsalted ingredients? The mealworms are a bonus ingredient but I agree with others that animal fat is probably better for wildlife than hydrogenated vegetable fat that humans shouldn't even eat.

great video, thx for sharing. I will ask my daughter we need to try this.

Thank you! Way cool and easy to follow!Make sure to suggest unsalted PB. No additives is best. Same for shortening.

Save a lot of time and cleaning by melting the fat on a very low heat to dissolve it and then add in the crunchy peanut butter and stir the two together.

I use nurses disposable gloves to mix everything by hand- lol I also get my peanut butter done fresh from a machine at my Bulk store (no sugar or salt) I added dried mealworms, chopped up peanut pieces and hulled sunflower. Thanks for the recipe - hard to keep the squirrels away

Love that you have the recipe below.

Thx , great video 👍⚾️🎄

When adding sticky ingredients, grease or oil the measuring instrument then the sticky slides right out. Works well for syrup, peanut butter, molasses, those types of sticky ingredients.

Great video will save me running out to buy some ..TY !

Your mum’s very knowledgeable 😊

hI Amanda! I can't believe I found you, and it's lovely to see you here. I'm margaret from wcs days in O. rememberring all I learned and how much I enjoyed those days. Hope all is well with you and yours. merry christmas 2023, thank you for the suet recipe.

Thank you. Have been wanting to make something extra for all the different birds we have here. They feed on the grain hay and alfa in the barn. Pluse we have plenty of trees here for then to stay in. Kind of like a bird nest city complex for them. God bless

Thanks for the information and the little knife I believe is a butter knife

Mix it so that it's just mixed in. I like these kind of unscripted videos. Very nice and good style

It’s evident you have big hearts ♥️ and care for our feathered friends. When preparing seed cakes/suet cakes, one needs to be very cautious with the ingredients. In reality birds do not eat fat per say. Seeds contain a certain type of oil. One should only add ingredients in a raw state. Fresh ground peanut butter, the natural fat is good for energy. Birds are foragers by nature. Ingredients that have been processed, beyond de hulling, cracked or ground. Wouldn’t be healthy for them.

Warming the fat makes it easier to incorporate the dry ingredients.

Super recipe two thumbs up!!! 👍👍👍🐦🐦🐦

Thank you so much, I enjoy feeding birds But i cant always buy the suet blocks due to budget. I also want to say i love the suet Log i want one .

You overlap and line the pan with 2 sheets of parchment paper. Then you can just lift out the suet with the parchment paper easily. One year the Robins came early I found out they love raisins so I keep them on hand in the spring.

Nice going to make some suet cakes.

Many birders and university experts say no no no vegetable shortening (harmful ingredients) or bacon fat (nitrates). Easier to melt fats together then add mixed dry ingredients to fats by hand. Less cleanup.

Wow you and your mom look like sisters, pretty, thank you

I make a mix similar to that, but omit the seed mix. Then I smear it on the bark of my trees, and they all come down, cling to the bark of the tree to eat it.

I could swear while she was spreading into the 8x8, I could actually smell peanut butter lol

I will try and make a log for my hanger.

Man you two could pass for sisters. The way you do it is fine except I prefer to mix all the dry ingredients by hand first and then I melt the peanut butter in the fat separately then add it in and remix.

Birds don't have a lot of saliva so mixing the peanut butter with the corn meal or oats etc helps them eat it.

I like your channel..I still have a lot to watch but do enjoy it.. I liked and sub your channel...

How the hell did I end up watching this? Great video though. Some awesome birds have been hanging around my backyard, and it would be good to help sustain them through the winter.

You gals go through a lot of trouble to prepare suet. I mix all ingredients and then take the bowl of suet out to the hanging suet container, take it down and just push it into the container. Some spills onto the ground for the Junko’s, nothing wasted. Total time is less than 10 minutes. It’s messier on the container but the birds eat it clean.

can i use store-bought ice cap lard?

no oats and pure pork lard and you have the right stuff millet seed is a good sub. for oats

You know that if you go to your local farm supply store you can buy suet cakes for about $0.60 each in about 3 dozen different flavors.

For Calcium how about dried ground up egg shells? Judi

As others stated, DO NOT Use Vegetable Shortening. You really should use Lard/Meat Fat. Just Heat to render the lard for mixing & shaping. One more Is DO NOT Use Any Ol’ Cheap Peanut Butter. Along w/other chemicals like added Hydrogenated oils, make sure it Does Not Contain the Chemical Sweetner- XYLITOL!! Ideally It’s Best to use Organic or make your own peanut butter😋

What about lard for the fat?

I buy suet from the butcher and cut it to fit in a suet feeder. The birds love it. I buy unsalted peanuts and chop them into small pieces. I buy cracked corn from the feed store. Then I mix both in with black oil sunflower seeds and fill the feeders. Much easier and more healthy for the birds than what you gals are doing. Just saying. 😇🇺🇸

Can I add calcium powder?

I only have cornmeal mix. Will that still work?

I live in a country that is hot. What can I do to prevent the suet balls from melting?

how long do you leave in freezer?

This is wrong in so many ways!!! Please educate yourselves regarding feeding birds.

Can you add egg shells from boiled eggs? I used to feed my parakeet hard boiled eggs. Shells and all.. Thank you!! And thank you for this recipe!!

Wife won’t let me use blender 😳. Can I get the cakes from you guys ? Please😁

Pork fat? I usually trim pork when it's got too much fat for me; certainly I can cook it down and use that, right? (I'm not talking about bacon lol😋 We use that for us🙄)

Does it matter that vegetable shortening is hydrogenated?

stupid question, how important is the rendering? Do we need to add in this peanut butter or seeds?

Our birds literally fight over peanut butter suet. When their not fighting, they're lined up for a meal.

That “goofy looking “ utensil is a butter knife.

I have a question: I notice everyone saying; do NOT use vegetable shortening. What if you can't find animal shortening anywhere? What do you use instead?

Hi

Gosh wish I had seen your comments about not salt etc. Just bought everything they said it the market.

Microwave the peanut butter and shortening first then ad rest it's alot more easy

i was told shortening should never be used for birds?

Is this really more economical than buying suet cakes?

thought this was great till I read the comments, wow, READ the comments and dont do this!

I keep bacon fat, save it till I have enough. Add good birdseed and it seems to work fine.

Is it harmful to give birds suet cakes through the summer months?

Are you both twins ? You look great 👍

Does no one add bird seed anymore.??

Mom? Need a job? You finished that off like a concrete finisher. That little bent butter knife looks like a miniature trowel. You stuck the landing on that one!

A hot mom makes suet .. yep, two thumbs up .

The prices on Amazon are outrageous. Can Josh's store beat Amazon prices?

I just hang the rib cages of the deer we shoot up in our tree, they all go nuts cleaning it out.

My birds rejected this mix too much peanut butter.

Squirrels need corn in the winter. It keeps them warm

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Everything I read never use shortening “crisco “ use lard

What is Suet?

To all the people vilifying the use of vegetable shortening, do you know how lipids are metabolized? Do you think it will make the birds get heart disease?

The woman on right looks like she never used a mixer or made anything from scratch before 😂

I thought birds get sick from fat...fatty liver disease and Hepatitis

A very long video for a simple task.......

It’s a butter knife

vegetable shortening is bad for wild Birds or any Wild life.

The problem with this is soon as it gets even a little warm it melts and there goes your Suet all over as it falls apart.

The vegetable shortening is SO bad for them (and humans). Use actual beef and bacon fat--mine is grass fed, grass finished because that's what I eat. I throw some blueberries and shelled sunflower seeds in, too. But those are my only suggestions. Thanks for the great video!!

Sarry the vegetable fat is not good for the animals SO why do we think it's good for us . Please think about it an research it .thankyou .

Why not just feed the birds raw suet? Why is this recipe better?

Do you know if other flours, such as millet flour?

Wow! You didn't even have to tell us she is your daughter, you two look so much alike! Y'alls chin and over bite is the same, two pretty lady's doing a good thing,for mother nature! I love feeding the birds. Can you tell me how to make humming bird food please, alot of people say sugar water but that cant be healthy. If you have a better way plz explain! Thanks 😄

Please DO NOT use shortening for man or beast (birds in this case). Use lard or animal fat, keep it naturally healthy,. You can get the fat you need from the butcher and melt it down for your recipe. The birds will thank you.

That so-called goofy little knife is a butter knife

First let me say there is no wrong way to make suet just whatever you feel comfortable with. If I use an open cage like you have the starlings will bully their way and eat it so I have a starling deterant cage with a double suet in the middle . This allows small birds sparrow and downys to feed, but starlings are discouraged. I usually pick up 4 or 5 prepacked suet trays as I keep those trays as they are the perfect size for the mix. I use a roaster pan melt down about 3 cups of shortning along with the 4-5 suet packs. Melt that down then add in my peanut butter, oats, birdseed, and peanuts. I start with the 4 suet packs and finish out with 12 containers. I freeze these till needed they hold together no problem. My birds go wild over the mix.

Vegetable shortening??? NOOOOO

NO NOT Vegetable shortening...full of crap additives ...use a decent quality coconut oil instead but beef or pork fat even better...Rendering animal fat could not be easier...I just did it for the first time and am going to do this from now on. Best to use seeds/nuts without the shells. Sunflower hearts are wonderful. Make this nutritious for them ...not just cheap and convenient.

..Should be unsalted and unsweetened peanut butter ........

Unfortunately, many of the least expensive peanutbutters aren't fully made of peanuts & peanut oil. Some may be made from peanut mash mixed with inferior oils as some companies separate, & then bottle & sell the real peanut oil for cooking, or sell it to other companies who do the same by creating blends of oils etc. Peanut oil has a high smoke point & doesn't get damaged by heating at high temps. I'd think twice about using some oils in home made suet cakes with high heat of summer. Be sure to toss out old oils for this or other culinary purpose if they've turned rancid, which they may do, even before we buy them, while sitting on distributer's, store's or on our home shelves. Check dates & whenever about to use - even in restaurants if making a vinaigrette from an oil on the table. Sniff the oil & take a small sample to taste in a spoon. Put the slightest amount on your tongue & wait. If it tastes at all bitter, it's turned rancid. Suet can go rancid in hot weather too, so if you prefer real suet, or lard, just put in a couple days worth at a time. Lard, especially leaf lard is excellent to cook with, so maybe too costly these days to use in our bird feeders. Leaf lard is said to be the best for flakey pie crusts. Real fats won't make us - or our bird friends sick like hydrogenated fats do - like margarine, which millions ate for decades. They're deadly because they clog our arteries. Real fat melts at body temps, I'm guessing, but Hydrogenated oils may not, so might not flow as freely. It might be hard to metabolize too, so we end up storing it in our fat, which we then maybe can't burn off as easily... I've bought real suet & then cut it to fit into the metal holders & the birds gobbled it up quickly. They make suet holders in two thicknesses, so I can use larger pieces in one of them. You can also form balls of seed & rendered suet, of course, & keep them in the fridge or freezer intil you need them. The round ones can be put into plastic mesh veggie bags. Cut & knot or stich up sections of mesh sleeves like what I bought my red onions in last time. They could hold fairly large, baseball size suet balls. I've also saved the plastic forms after I've loaded in the purchased "suet" cakes. Simply pour slightly cooled melted suet over cracked corn & black oil sunflower seeds & oatmeal placed in the recycled plastic forms, or mix it all in a big bowl seeds, corn, dried fruit & all. Spoon the mixture, or plain suet into molds when it cools enough so it won't melt the flimsy plastic forms. You may be able to find & add some nutritious seeds & chopped nuts that grow in your area! I wonder if birds can eat chopped acorns? That's free if you know where to find them. I have a yard full - every fall, ...but would be taking away from what the squirels eat. Native Americans cooked & ate them, so we can too, but not sure birds can.

Birds do not like salt, so watch how much salt is in the peanut butter.