Title: Recipe(tried): Dog Biscuits
Posted By: Tanis
Date: August 16th 1998
In Reply to: ISO: a good, tasty dog biscuit recipe please.
Board: TKL Cooking Club

Hi,

We do tons of homemade dog biscuits at
Christmastime. When we deliver cookie trays, we
deliver dog biscuits, strung on red ribbon, to our canine
friends.

What the doggies like is garlic and meat paste. I make
my own meat paste, from leftover pot roast and canned
beef broth, in the food processor. For the picky-est of
the picky eaters (and we own a little Tibetian Spaniel
like that), try cheese or cheese-and-bacon.

What you're going for is a thick, non-fluffy, very heavy
dough that smells strongly like meat and garlic. And a
low oven temperature, to bake them hard and
long-lasting.

BASIC RECIPE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour, or any combination of
heavy, whole-grain flours
1/2 cup nonfat powdered milk
1 tsp. sugar
1 tsp. Lawry's Seasoned Salt
1 large egg
1 tsp. minced garlic
1/2 cup hot meat paste (see notes above)
1/4 to 1/2 cup very hot water

Mix together well with an electric mixer. Turn out onto
a floured pastry cloth and knead until elastic and "set."
Cut with dog-bone cutter, or with the edge of a drinking
glass. Spray cookies sheets with Pam and place
biscuits on them. They will not spread at all, so you
can place them very close together. Bake at 250
degrees F. for one hour, turn trays 180 degrees, and
bake at least another half hour.

FOR CHEESE BISCUITS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If you know that you're going to be making doggie
treats, save up all the hard bits of leftover cheese.
Grate them up and use them, in place of the meat
paste. If you do not have leftover cheese, then buy a
bag of Kraft grated cheese, sharp cheddar, and use
that. Once the biscuits are on the cookie trays, you
can sprinkle them with grated Parmesan.

FOR CHEESE-AND-BACON
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Add Hormel's Real Bacon Bits (they're in the salad
dressing section of your grocery store).

Hope this helps.