Homemade Dog Biscuits

In my quest to use up my soon-to-expire eggs the last few days, I was finally forced to make the dog biscuits I had been putting off planning on for weeks! This recipe is very versatile as you can use almost any food you need to use up.  Just be sure they're okay for your doggies to eat before you do.  Here's a link to a site that lists foods to avoid.  Here's how I made mine:

1C Bacon Grease
3 Eggs (only two shown...decided to add one more)
1/2C Milk (I wasn't sure this was necessary at all)
1 1/2C Chicken Broth, homemade
1/4C Peanut butter (Just used it because it was expiring)
1t Salt
1T Honey
7C Flour
2C Rolled Oats (decided on this after the fact...not pictured)


Start by dumping your bacon grease in a very large bowl and mixing it to soften it.  You might notice that mine is all lumpy, has bits of food in it, and is obviously unfiltered.  This is NOT the bacon grease I filter and save for my family to use in cooking.  I collected this over a couple of weeks by saving grease/cracklings from the bottoms of the pans I used for breakfast and dinner meats.  I kept it in the fridge until I had enough.

Add in your eggs, mix well.

Add milk, broth, peanut butter, salt and honey.  (or whatever food stuffs you are using)  Mix well.      Mixture will be very runny.

 Because I don't know what kind of food you will be adding, we will start off 2C of white flour and 2C of oats.  If it's too thick to blend with your hand mixer, use a stiff wooden spoon.  Mine was still easy at this point.

I kept adding flour until it became too difficult to use my mixer.  Didn't want to break it.

I finally added enough flour to make a bread-like dough.  I didn't feel like dunking my hands into the mixture for some reason, so I used gloves to mix it.  I just needed to incorporate the last of the flour that brought it to the right consistency.  It's kind of like a greasy bread dough.

I started rolling the dough into little balls, a little less than one inch across.  You could also roll the dough out and cut out with cookie cutters, but that just didn't appeal to me today for some reason.  More work than I wanted to do.

It occurred to me that these might not spread, so I smashed half of them flat.  As a side note, a few minutes into baking, I realized the others were not going to spread like a cookie, so I smashed them flat, too.  Since we have a puppy, I needed something he could eat, too.  If it was just for my older dog, I may have left them round.

It looks like Happers likes the dough!  He got the honor of licking the bowl.  He really seems to be getting in to it!

Bake at 350 for 35 to 40 minutes or until golden brown.  They smelled soooo good while they were baking, I was thinking that I would eat them myself!  The more I thought about it, there was nothing in there I wouldn't really eat, so I took a little nip off of the edge of one, lol!  It was soooo good, but needed more salt for my liking, but I'm assuming that's not very good for doggies.  It tasted like a chicken pot pie crust!  Good thing I'm on a diet or I would have eaten several, lol!   Let cool completely before storing.  They should be firm, somewhere between a pie crust and a cracker.

This made 157 biscuits.  I'm estimating these at about $1.50 for the whole lot, so about a penny a piece.  That's cheaper than the ones I get at Aldi and about 75% cheaper than the big name brand.  A lot of the ingredients were going to be thrown away if not used right away. So, I like that they didn't go to waste.  It's not a project I'd want to do weekly, but it was a nice experiment.  The dogs love them, too.  I'm trying to make them last by giving them each a half when they come in from outside.

You can store these in your doggie treat jar or in a baggie.  I just stuck the extras in a baggie in the fridge.  It actually smells good when you lift the jar to get a treat!  Never thought I'd utter the words, "Man, these dog biscuits are making me hungry!!"  LOL!  This actually gives me an idea to make my own 'chicken in a biscuit crackers' when I'm not on a diet...whenever that is!!!

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