A Pinch of This and That
by Connie
(Mill City, Oregon)
Ingredients:
2 cup shortening (melted)
1 cup peanut butter (chunky)
1 cup oatmeal
1 cup quality hull-less birdseed
And add a pinch of this and that of any of the following leftovers from your cupboard...
Cream of Wheat
Cornmeal
Spelt flour
Wheat flower
Wheat bulger
Bread crumbs or small dried bread chunks (especially raisin, nut, pumpkin zucchini breads etc)
Bottom of the box bits of dry breakfast cereal
Mix enough of a combination of above added ingredients to make it a fairly thick consistency. Spoon into muffin tins, yogurt cups, fill voids on large pine cone or fill into drilled holes in wood plank feeder... etc
Cool until solid in anyplace cold, porch; garage etc