Soft Peanut Butter Mix

1 cup fresh ground suet
1 cup peanut butter
3 cups yellow corn meal
1/2 cup white or whole-wheat flour

Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat.
Add peanut butter, stirring until melted and well blended.
Mix the rest of the ingredients together in a large bowl.
Allow the suet-peanut-butter blend to cool until slightly thickened, then stir it into the mixture in the bowl. Mix thoroughly.
Pour or pack into forms or suet feeders; smear onto tree trunks or overhanging limbs and branches; or pack into pine cones.

Sure-fire Suet Mix

1 part crunchy peanut butter
1 part shortening or rendered suet
1 part flour
3 parts cornmeal
1 part cracked corn

You can also add black oil sunflower seeds and/or mixed seed. The birds love it...from woodpeckers to chickadees to thrashers to sparrows.

Hard Peanut Butter Mix #1

2 pounds fresh ground suet
1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter
1/2 cup coarse-chopped shelled sunflower seeds

Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat.
Add peanut butter, stirring until melted and well blended.
Stir in the sunflower seeds. Mix thoroughly.
Pour into 9 x 13 cake pan and cool
Cut into cakes that fit suet feeder
Individually wrap the remaining cakes and store in freezer

Hard Peanut Butter Mix #2

2 cup fresh ground suet
1 cup peanut butter
2 cups yellow corn meal
2 cups fine cracked corn

Melt suet in a saucepan over low heat. Allow it to cool thoroughly; then reheat it.
Add peanut butter, stirring until melted and well blended.
Add dry ingredients to the suet-peanut-butter blend, and mix well.
Pour into forms or suet-feeders, and cool until hardened.

Bird Cakes

1 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 cup lard
2 cups quick cook oats
2 cups cornmeal
1 cup flour
1/3 cup sugar

Melt the peanut butter and lard. Add remaining ingredients and cool.