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Birdie Bread
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup yellow corn meal
2 tsp baking power
3/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 Tbs sugar
2 eggs with shells
3 Tbs oil (your preference)
1 cup buttermilk
Grease an 8" pan with Pam. Mix dry ingredients. Wash eggs then pulverize in blender. Mix in oil and buttermilk, then mix in dry ingredients. Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Cool and cut into small squares and freeze.
Variations: Fruits, veggies, peppers, nuts, etc. can be added to the mixture if you like.
This recipe comes from the kitchen of June DiCiocco of Hideaway Farms in South Carolina. She breeds Sun Conures, Finches, Conures, Pacific Parrotlets, and Severe Macaws. She says that conures particularly love this birdie bread.
"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." - Chinese Proverb
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