28 Making Treats
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This article is from the Obedience Trials, by Cindy Tittle Moore with numerous contributions by others.
28 Making Treats
Note: 4, 5 and 7 are essentially variations on the same recipe.
1. Beef liver, parbroiled and then baked to dry out.
2. Hot dogs:
+ turkey or chicken hot dogs dry out better than beef ones do
+ cut lengthwise in fours and slice for very small pieces to
spit at dog
+ slice a hot dog very thinly (20-30 "coins"), lay on paper
towels, sprinkle with garlic powder (NOT garlic salt), then
put them in the microwave on high for 6-9 minutes, depending
on the desired crunchiness
3. Assorted:
+ Kielbasa
+ string cheese
+ plain Cheerios
+ popcorn (unsalted, unbuttered)
+ Liv-A-Snaps (they are a bit crunchy, but they break into tiny
pieces)
+ Freeze-dried liver (commercially available: expensive but
long-lasting; easy to break up into tiny chunks)
4. biscuits:
1 pound raw liver
1 cup corn meal
1 cup whole wheat flour
tons of powdered garlic
Puree the liver in the blender and mix the rest together into
sticky gooey mess. Spread onto well greased baking pan and bake at
300 degrees until it is fairly dried out, but not browned. If you
want, you can poke the bubbles that form on the top to keep them
from separating from the rest, but it works fine if you don't.
Allow to cool and cut into 1/2 inch squares. I store most of mine
in the freezer though a small bag, if used frequently can be kept
in the fridge. Caution: it goes bad really fast , i.e. starts
growing cultures of it's own, so only keep small amounts unfrozen.
5. liver cubes Liquify (ugh) 1 lb. liver, for this I use chicken
livers in a tub, and use all the liquid that comes with it. If you
use vacuum packed frozed beef liver, add a tad of water. Add 1 cup
flour, 1/2 cup corn meal, 1 tsp. onion powder, 1 tsp. minced
garlic, 1 tsp. garlic salt, and 1 T. oregano. Spread on cookie
sheet greased with oil (consistancy when spreading on sheet should
be that of peanut butter. Cook at 350 degrees for 12-15 min. I
like to make them 1/2 to 3/4 in thick. Cut up and freeze away.
They do not take well to standing a room temp. for long periods of
time!! So, defrost only what you will use in about 2 days.
6. Liver Buy the beef liver, place on a real plate (not plastic) in
the micro- wave, while still frozen, and cook till brown. This
makes very rubbery liver which is good in the breed ring, and good
if you want the dog to knibble on the liver while teaching for
example, stand from a sit. If you use this method, you can put it
in your pocket and it is no longer moist. Oh yes, don't forget to
sprinkle garlic on it before "nuking" it.
7. This was published in Front & Finish. Haven't met a dog that
doesn't like them.
1 lb liver (beef or pork)
1 C Corn meal
2 eggs
1/2 C flour
2-3 tea garlic powder
2 Tbl oil
Blend in food processor until smooth. Bake in greased 9 x 13 pan
20 minutes at 400 degrees. Cut into squares. Keep in frig. or can
be frozen.
Be forewarned....the house will smell when baking.
8. Liver pieces
Take a pound of beef liver. Put it in water on the stove, add 1/4
tsp of garlic powder. Boil for 1/2 hour. Then remove , put on a
cookie sheet or something similar and bake at low heat for another
hour or so. (200 F) After that, cut up into small pieces. Smells
like h*** when you make it but keeps wonderfully in the freezer,
and the doggies love it. The broth from the boiling can also be
used on dry food as an extra treat.
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