DOG BISCUITS

Homemade meatless dog biscuits

This strange and wonderful recipe appeared in our hometown paper's consumer column, for making doggie Christmas presents! Although they are meatless, they are not vegetarian, as they contain chicken broth. However, your dog is quite unlikely to be a strict vegetarian.

Ingredients

(Several dozen)

350 g all-purpose flour
250 g whole-wheat flour
100 g rye flour
200 g cornmeal
300 g cracked wheat (bulgur)
100 g non-fat dry milk powder
20 g salt
5 dl chicken stock
7.5 g active dry yeast (one package)
1 egg
15 ml milk

Procedure

Preheat oven to 150C Combine, in a big bowl, the flours, cornmeal, milk powder, and salt.
In a separate bowl, dissolve yeast in 5 cl lukewarm water; let it sit for a few minutes, until it bubbles.
Add the chicken stock to the yeast mixture. Mix well.
Add the liquid to the dry ingredients. Knead about 3 minutes. The dough should be stiff.
Flour a board with cornmeal and roll out the dough to a thickness of 5 mm Cut out biscuits with cookie cutters in appropriate shapes, and place on ungreased cookie sheets. Mix the egg and milk and use to brush tops of biscuits (for shine), then bake the biscuits for 45 minutes at 150C
Turn off the heat and leave biscuits in the oven overnight. This will make the biscuits be bone-hard.

Notes

Though these are intended for dogs, people find them better tasting than many health foods.

These make a dandy birthday or Christmas present for your favorite friend's dog.

Rating

Difficulty: easy.
Time: 30 minutes preparation, 45 minutes cooking, overnight hardening.
Precision: approximate measurement OK.

Contributor

 
Anne Hill Wiebe 
University of Texas Computation Center, Austin, Texas, USA 
wiebe@ut-ngp.arpa

Recipe last modified: 18 Nov 86

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