Dot & Daisy's Favorite Dog Cookie Recipe

 Everyone,

For the past several months Dot and Daisy have been going crazy over Meg's dog cookie recipe.  Meg modified the recipe she found at www.thepoop.com Their recipe calls for margarine and Meg uses bacon grease instead. We have bacon about once a week and save the grease as it is not good to pour it down the drain.

Dot and Daisy’s Favorite Dog Cookies…

¾ cup chicken broth (You can use chicken bouillon cubes or broth from a can or 
                                  box…I use organic, no added salt….)
1/3 cup bacon grease
½ cup powdered milk
1 tablespoon garlic powder or granules
1 tablespoon parsley flakes (or a combination of garlic and parsley)
a couple of tablespoons of Brewer’s yeast
1 large egg, beaten
3 cups whole wheat flour


Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.  In a large bowl, combine  broth and bacon grease.  Add powdered milk, garlic, parsley, Brewer’s yeast, and egg.  Slowly stir in the flour, a little at a time…mix well.

Knead the dough for 3-4 minutes and roll out to ¼ to ½ inch thickness.  Use cookie cutters to cut into desired shapes (I use bone shapes of various sizes and mini-people shapes).  Place on greased cookie sheet and bake for 50 minutes.  Make sure you bake them long enough to get crunchy, but not burnt.  If you under bake them they will get moldy (YUK!).

Remove from the oven and let cool until dry and hard.  Makes just over a pound of yummy dog cookies!  Store in an airtight container. 

Here is a photo of the cookies being made. Note our cats have been known to eat the cookies too. Sometimes Meg adds some left over or hard cheese to the batch of cookies. One thing about adding cheese the cookies might spoil after a week or so. Dot has been known to just drop on the floor store bought cookies since she has been eating Meg's homemade cookies. Every evening when you go into the kitchen Dot will bark at you telling us it is time for her cookie. Daisy and the two cats just wait for Dot to give the people commands for the cookies.

Milo, Meg's sister's chihuahua,  went nuts by just smelling the cookies in his Christmas package.  Since then he wants cookies all the time, before he just was not very interested in dog cookies bought at the store.

Here is Dot (the white dog), Daisy and Grumpy the one-eyed cat sleeping away on their new pillow they got for Christmas. Maybe we should have picked up a bigger pillow?

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Last night it was supposed to snow an inch or more, it missed us. We were bummed because the wood stove was to be delivered and installed today and figured the roof would not be safe to walk on. Well the weather man got it wrong again and by 10 am the roof was safe to walk on. The crew arrived about 10 and started on installing the chimney and wood stove. Shortly after they got here it started snowing, then it quit and the sun came out.

The addition was finished over two years ago and the wood stove was supposed to be done then, but the construction budget was maxed out and the stove was omitted. Meg has always been wanting a wood stove so when the power goes out we'd have heat. Hurricanes can hit the area here and power could be out for weeks, usually in late summer or fall. Then there are ice storms that can kill the power for a few days or so.

Here is the living room as the chimney was being installed.

The wood stove just after installing it. This stove is highly efficient it will burn for 8 hours without any help they say. It is made by Hampton. Notice the cooking surface on the top of the stove!

Meg did the honors of lighting the first fire in the stove.

 

Kale, mustard greens and rape from our cold frames today.