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Miracle Meal recipe with variations

 

• 1 lb. lard
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 5-6 cups yellow cornmeal
• 1/3 cup flour
• 1 cup dried currants

Warm lard to room temp, mix with peanut butter and currants (or finely chopped raisins).             

Add flour and cornmeal until consistency of course pie dough.

May be divided into small plastic bags and frozen until needed. Not mentioned in the article is the addition of any nuts, coconut, dried fruit on hand which has been practically pulverized in processor. Note: Another recipe  called Miracle Meal calls for :

• 4 cups yellow cornmeal
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup lard, melted suet, or grease
• 1 tsp. corn oil
• Sunflower hearts, peanut hearts, chopped soaked raisins.

Melt lard and stir in sunflower and peanut hearts and raisins. Mix in corn oil, cornmeal and flour. Let this set up, and then cut into chunks. NOTE: If it comes out sandy, pour more melted lard over it so it will crumble or you can shape it into balls.

 

All Season Peanut Butter Pudding

 

• 1 cup crunchy peanut butter
• 2 cups quick oats
• 2 cups yellow cornmeal
• 1 cup lard (no substitutes)
• 1 cup white/wheat flour
• 1/3 cup sugar  

Melt lard and peanut butter. Add remaining ingredients. Pour into plastic freezer containers or forms (use previously purchased plastic suet containers). Freeze or refrigerate until use (if use is intended within a week – otherwise freeze). You can also add various dried fruit and sunflower “meats” to this basic recipe during winter months for woodpeckers, finches, and other grosbeaks of all varieties. Expect squirrel problems with this nutty, intoxicating stuff…hang the pudding in an “upside down” feeder, or location you can provide some squirrel patrol. Double or triple the receipt, but don’t forget to use heavy duty utensils, this stuff is thick and heavy.  

 * For more information on suet ingredients or if you’d rather purchase suet rather than make your own, check out the variety of different suet and feeders at:  http://www.wildlife-houses.com/index.php?cPath=17&osCsid=5ebadce31f27bd7df53d0e27e512dd44