Sift together dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl.
Cut in shortening with a pastry blender or knives until crumbly. Add eggs and mix to make firm dough.
Add bird seed and knead until smooth.
Wrap in waxed paper and plastic bag and chill thoroughly.
Slowly melt peanut butter, grease or fat over low heat.
Add cornmeal or stale cereal crumbs.
Slowly add enough warm water to make a stiff dough.
Add birdseed and raisins, nut meats or chopped peanuts.
Pack mixture into small foil pans or a large flat pan.
Refrigerate overnight.
Cut into pieces for tying onto tree branches.
We mixed it all together in a gallon sized freezer bag.
Pour into baby food jars (all the way to the top) and take them home.
Then on Christmas eve, just as the sun started to go down, we take it outside and sprinkle in the front yard.
Make sure to sprinkle it all. (I suppose the more you use the prettier it would be when the moon light hits it, but it sure was pretty on top of the snow!).
(Merry Christmas).
ow large you make your bird feeders so the\"yield\" is
Melt the lard and peanut butter, and mix in the dry ingredients and bird seed. Often we mix in bacon fat, bread crumbs, Red River cereal, or whatever we have on hand. Work well together. Make into 4 x 4 x 2 inch blocks and freeze. Place in suet feeder in a tree and watch the birds come to feast!
Cut angel food cake in slices.
Layer in a 9 x 13-inch glass dish.
Spread 1 can cherry filling on top of cake.
Put another layer of angel cake.
In a bowl, put sour cream, vanilla pudding and milk; beat until creamy.
Spread on cake layer.
Top with Cool Whip lite.
Sprinkle with chopped nuts.
Refrigerate for 5 hours. Serve cold and scoop out.
Can also be made in a trifle bowl.
Just before serving, crush the Butterfinger candy bars into tiny pieces (leave in wrapper and hit with something heavy).
Add to Cool Whip and frost the angel food cake.
If you only want a piece at a time, leave Cool Whip mixture in bowl and refrigerate.
he water.
Rinse the wild rice in several changes of
Clean & skin the bird as soon as possible.
elps absorb some of the wild game flavor.)
Rub the
soak bird in salted water x 1
Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F.
Insert thermometer into the thickest part of the breast or thigh without touching bone.
Sprinkle the bird with as much soy sauce as you would like (and then add more).
Season the turkey with pepper.
Cover turkey loosely with foil and bake for an hour.
Baste the bird frequently with the frozen orange juice concentrate until it is gone.
Finish cooking, covered, until thermometer reads 170\u00b0F.
Pound the chilis and garlic together in a mortar with a pestle. Add the bean and lightly crush. Add the tomatoes, sugar, roasted peanuts, dried shrimp, lime juice, lime wedges, and fish sauce to the mortar and gently mix together until the sugar has dissolved.
Add the papaya and mix together. Serve.
Recipe courtesy of Quick and Easy Thai Food by Jean-Pierre Gabriel. Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Easy-Thai-Jean-Pierre-Gabriel/dp/0714873225.
rom the goose. Wash the bird inside and out. Pat dry
ver the body. Season the bird all over including the cavity
Wash game hens.
Sprinkle with salt (including the inside of cavity as well as entire outside of bird).
Prepare rice according to directions on the box.
When rice is done, add raisins and mix together.
Stuff each hen with mixture and wrap in foil or place in roasting pan.
Bake at 350\u00b0 for 45 minutes.
Baste each bird with melted butter.
Leave in oven until golden brown and tender, usually 15 to 20 minutes longer.
ube on a food processor.
Using the food processor with a
lid, and simmer the wild rice until the kernels burst
chili and paprika in a food processor. Process until pork is
Rub inside of bird with salt and pepper.