How to Make Bird Seed Cookies
- 1). Combine two cups of flour, ¼-cup of sugar and ½ teaspoon of baking powder in a large mixing bowl.
- 2). Stir ½-cup of bacon grease or melted lard into the dry mixture. Blend thoroughly until crumbly.
- 3). Drop two whole raw eggs in their shells into the blender. Chop the eggs and shells. Pour the processed eggs into the dough, and knead them into it.
- 4). Knead ½-cup wild bird seed into the cookie dough. Cover the bowl with a wet towel and refrigerate it for four hours.
- 5). Flour a flat working surface and the rolling pin. Roll the cookie dough out to about ¼ inch thick.
- 6). Cut the cookies from the dough with cookie cutters or with a mug or drinking glass. Pierce the middle of each cookie with a drinking straw to make holes for hanging the treats. Place them on an ungreased cookie sheet.
- 7). Preheat the oven to 325F and bake the bird seed cookies for 10-13 minutes, or until they're hard. Remove the cookie sheet from the oven and cool it on a rack.
- 8). Cut a piece of twine about three feet long for each cookie. Run the cording through the hole and secure the treat to the twine with a knot. Hang some of the cookies up outside for your wild birds, and refrigerate the others in plastic food storage bags for up to a week.
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