If you have been to Florida near the fall/winter, you have probably seen those pretty purple berries that grow near the road. Those are called beaut berries. When you want to feed the birds, but have no fresh and new ideas, you can create a meal that no bird would turn down.
Instructions
1. Pour the wet beauty berries into a small bowl. Use the spoon, stick, or potato masher to crush them, making a thick, paste-like, purple and white mush.
2. Pour 1/2 a cup of water onto the mush, stirring and smashing the berries again and again to extract the juice. Leave set in a warm place to extract the juiced that you didn't mash out.
3. Strain the juice into a different bowl after about 2 hours. Use the strainer to make sure that NO pieces of the berries get into the juice. After straining, pour into the jar or bottle. Shake well after this step.
4. If you cannot find any dried beauty berries, put 3 1/2 cups of beauty berries on a cookie sheet. Set them in the sun to dry for a couple of days, bring them in before dark. The berries will shrink when they are dried, and will not plump back up unless you soak them in water and juice.
5. Put the dry berries in your bird feeder and pour the juice over them to make them smell more appealing and to make them easier for the birds to eat them, since they get very hard after drying.
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