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Dogs don't need cereals in their food. But we need little bites to give
during training our dogs. Surely you can buy such bites, but no-one exactly
knows, what is in it. But some of these are very colourful and in christmas
time you can find cinnamon-smelling sorts with sugar on top. Obviously we
don't give conventional dry pellet food as goodies.
Our goodies are easy to make, our dogs love them (and even cats and horses,
as we found out) and you can eat them yourself.
So here is our home-made alternative.
carrot-crackers
you need:
500g
porridge oats
250g carrots
150g apple
1 egg yolk
50g honey
25g oil
a little bit of salt
some rye flour to roll out the
pastry
how it's made:
Grind the porridge oats to a fine grit (cutter with rotating knives), clean
apple (without the core) and carrots, but don't peel them and mince all to a
pulp.
Mix all ingredients to a solid pastry (with your hands, because the pastry
is too stiff for an electric mixer), form a ball and let it rest for at
least half an hour.
Then divide the pastry into smaller pieces, roll them out with a bit of rye
flour (about 2 mm thick) and cut it first into stripes and then into pieces.
Bake the pieces at 150 °C for about an hour (mix them several times to make
sure, that everything becomes even dry) and take care that the pieces don't
get brown.
switch off the heat and let the pieces cool down in the oven.
Stored dry the crackers stay good for quite a while.
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