Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
dairy-free
Alternative Mocking Bird Food
From The household (of the Detroit free press), 1886
Serves 20
This mixture provides a nutritious diet for mocking birds.
A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record
Ingredients
- Take one beef's heart
- two pounds of soda crackers
- two pounds of hemp seed
- two ounces of olive oil
- half spoonful of red pepper
Method
Boil the beef's heart, chop it fine, and dry it in the oven.
Pound the hemp seed and soda crackers, then mix with the oil and dried heart.
Nutrition per serving
442Calories
19 gProtein
38 gCarbs
26 gFat
Estimated from matched ingredients across 20 servings.
As published
This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Take one beef's heart, two pounds of soda crack- ers, two pounds of hemp seed, two ounces of olive oil, half spoonful of x red peppe
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