Dog Biscuits
You may ask why a dog biscuit recipe in included on this web site. Well, many of the friends Annie gives the cookies and "stuff" to at Christmas, have dogs, and they want a "gift " too. Now as you know, dogs shouldn't eat people food, so Annie includes a treat for them as well.
1 egg
1/2 cup milk (125mL)
1/4 cup vegetable oil (50mL) (I use dripping)
1 teaspoon sugar
1 3/4 cups all-purpose or unbleached flour
3/4 cup bran cereal
1/4 cup rolled oats
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Lightly beat in the egg. In a large bowl, stir together the egg, milk, vegetable oil (dripping) and sugar. Use large spoon. This is not job for an electric mixer.
Combine the flour, bran cereal and rolled oats. Add them to the egg-milk mixture and stir until you have created a stiff dough. Sprinkle work surface lightly with flour and roll out the dough to about 1/4 inch thick (if you want to make bone shapes)
Use a knife or toothpick to mark bone shapes, each about 2 inches long in the dough. You may want to make a cardboard pattern. Then cut out the bone shaped biscuits. Roll up the scraps of dough and cut out more biscuits.
Note: I don't bother making bone shapes. I don't think dogs care what they look like. I roll the dough like a pencil about 1/2 thick and cut into 2 inch lengths or roll the dough out and just cut the lengths. (See pictures below)
Line up biscuits on a lightly greased baking sheet. Bake for about 15 minutes. Make sure they are cool before you let your dog sample a biscuit.
Note: If you use dripping instead of vegetable oil, keep the biscuits refrigerated or frozen because they will go mouldy after a period of time if kept at room temperature.
