Recipe(tried): Dog Biscuits - Cheese Biscuits, Cheese and Bacon Biscuits

Dog Biscuits

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.