For those interested, Pine Tree Farms makes vegetarian suet
in standard-size cakes and will ship to your door. I've had
great success with it:
http://pinetreefarmsinc.com/PTF/veggie_suets.shtml
But your recipe sounds good too! :)
-Derek
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Deapesh Misra wrote:
Hi,
My wife and I, have been thinking hard for a vegetarian replacement for suet.
My wife came with an idea which is working great. Here is the recipe:
* knead wheat flour and water so as to obtain a mass of dough
* mix in the bird seeds into the dough (we are currently using 'Kaytee Ultimate Nut and Fruit Blend'.
And that is it, we put the dough out in a suet cage!
We have had the following birds eat from it so far:
* Carolina Wrens
* White Breasted Nuthatches
* Carolina Chickadees
* Downy Woodpeckers
It seems to us that one advantage of this system is that, when the dough is still soft, smaller birds feed from it. And when it dries out and gets hard, woodpeckers and wrens only continue to feed from it.
-Deapesh
Fairfax, VA
