March 28, 2008 | Outdoors, Being Green
Here at Broomhuggers we love to find new ways to use things that would normally get thrown away! Kathy just wrote a great post on what to do with your left over bacon grease to dispose of it and a reader asked if you could use bacon grease to make seed balls for the birds. Asked and answered!!!
Recipe #1
Melt together 2 cups chunky peanut butter and 2 cups of lard (or bacon grease).
Add 4 cups oatmeal, 4 cups cornmeal, 1/3 cup flour, and 1 Tablespoon sugar. Mix everything together.
Place in forms. Freeze. It’s that easy. Pull out of freezer when ready to use. Makes about 6 or 7 suit cakes.
Recipe #2
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup vegetable shortening, melted (Grease will work here too)
1/2 cup shelled peanuts
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup corn meal
1/2 cup cracked corn
Mix all of the above ingredients together. Not all ingredients need to be used (use whatever you have on hand), as long as the mixture will stick together. Feel free to add in a little bit of bird seed as an added bonus!
I was actually needing to go out and buy another suet cake for my daughters bird feeder but now I think I’ll just go and buy some bacon instead! 
Just a reminder: If you start feeding birds in your yard it’s very important you continue feeding them, especially in the colder months. They start to depend on the food you are providing for them!
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Karen (Pediascribe) says:
Do you know how this does in the warmer weather? I know some suet is good for only cold weather, some is good anytime.
This is a GREAT idea. I just had a skillet of bacon grease the other day and didn’t have any idea what to do with it. I don’t put it down the drain (septic tank) so I ended up using about 15 paper towels to sop it up. I knew that wasn’t a good idea.
Just wondering about warm weather issues with these recipes.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:04 pmJeana says:
Good question Karen. I will check into that and let you know!
March 28th, 2008 at 10:22 pm