Bake your own dog biscuits

It’s easy to make biscuits for your dogs  – home baked are inexpensive and good for them too.    They have no additives or colouring and are fresh and wholesome.   Our recipe is easy …..

Make a few extra and give as presents for all your doggy friends  –  they look great in a box tied with gingham ribbon or you could put them in a pretty tin or cookie jar.

8 oz stoneground wholemeal flour, organic if possible            

2 oz. organic butter (goat’s butter is best)

Sprinkle of dried cranberries

Pinch of dried rosemary

Handful of chopped chicken

Splash of goat’s milk to mix

Rub butter into flour until the mix resembles breadcrumbs.   Add the cranberries and the rest of the ingredients.  Stir  in with a fork and add the milk,  mixing fairly quickly to form a soft dough.                      

 

Put a sprinkle of flour on your baking board and pat the dough out with your hands.  You can roll it if you like or simply press it into an oblong shape.  Leave the dough fairly thick, this depends on your dog and the desired size of the biscuits.    Put the dough into a greased, flat baking tin (I use my Yorkshire pudding tin)and mark the top, into small or large squares to suit, with a knife.   If you have a bone shaped cutter you can make them into real doggy cookies.  

You can put a fork mark on the top of each square if you like.  Brush with milk or beaten egg and put in to bake.  I pop the biscuits in  when I have the oven on for some other meal (or when the oven is cooling down).   Leave in till golden and crisp.   Doesn’t usually take long—about10 minutes.

Feed as a titbit or as a base for the main meal in which case add more meat and some gravy if liked.   Change the ingredients to suit  – beef, liver, lamb – sardines instead of chicken are popular here.  Grated carrots instead of cranberries go down well.   Store in a tin or jar and use within a few days.