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Introduction
Have you ever felt sorry for the birds you see in your garden in winter-time busily searching for scarce food? Well, there's a way you can feed them. You can make a pudding especially for birds.
To make your pudding you'll need a middle-sized saucepan, a pudding basin, a saucer, a large plastic bag, a wooden spoon, about half a kilogram of animal fat, some stale bread, birdseed or wheat, raisins, broken biscuits, honey, some bacon rinds and scraps of cooked meat and, of course, an adult to help would be handy!
First, you put the fat into the saucepan and melt it. Do not have the stove element too hot for this; a low heat is all that is required. Next, add some bacon rinds, the meat scraps, and a teaspoonful of honey to the melting fat.
While the fat continues to melt, crumble the stale bread and broken biscuits into the plastic bag. Add the birdseed or wheat and the raisins and shake them all up together.
When the fat has melted, tip in the dry ingredients from the plastic bag and stir the fat until all the bits you've added are mixed right through. Continue to add the dry ingredients until the pudding is quite stiff to stir and the fat has soaked right into the ingredients.
Now, tip the mixture into the pudding basin and press down with the saucer until you can see fat oozing round the edge of the saucer. Leave the mixture for a day or two to cool and set. Then tip it out and put it on a high stand in the garden, or somewhere that cats can't get it. The birds will love it!
You might like to make a list of the different kinds of birds that visit the garden to eat your pudding.
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