Happy January and happy New Year! This is National Oatmeal Month and Sunday, January 5th, is… National Bird Day.
Mom loved feeding our backyard birds (and squirrels), especially those that stayed for our Michigan winters. I remember helping her turn milk cartons into feeders and hanging them around the yard (just out of the reach of our dog, Taffy). Years later, I did this with my own kids, too.
PUDDING FOR BIRDS (A Winter Craft)
By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in her self-published newsletter… Gloria Pitzer’s Secret Recipe Report (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; December 1980, p. 3).
REMEMBER THE BIRDS this winter, by feeding them periodically this pudding recipe, sent to us by the Audubon Society…
INGREDIENTS/ITEM NEEDS:
1 cup melted beef suet
½ cup peanut butter
2 cups bread crumbs
½ cup cornmeal
1 cup rolled oats
INSTRUCTIONS:
Mix well together. Spread over bottom of shallow Styrofoam or paper plates and place in the yard on top of shrubs. Or cut a milk carton to within 1 inch of bottom, allowing 2-inch height in back – through which you tack it to the side of a tree. Fill as needed with the pudding.
LAST THOUGHTS…
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