LIVER CAKE RECIPE.

Those of you who show dogs may well have used Liver cake to bait your dogs in the ring but for those of you who may not have heard of it below we have printed the recipe for this cake as it seems to have the effect of holding your dogs attention whilst in the ring and has the added advantage of not making one's hands sticky.

8ozs Liver [preferably Lambs]
4ozs S/R Flour
2 Eggs
2 Cloves Garlic/ or 2 tsps garlic puree.

Put all the ingredients into a blender until the mixture is smooth, pink and runny [not too rigid a requirement if you prefer to make it a bit chunky' Pour into greased swiss roll type baking tin and place in the oven [Gas Mark 4] for around 30-40 minutes.
Leave to cool and cut into bite size pieces.
It can be frozen into individual bags [enough for a show] and makes enough for 4/5 shows.

BAKE YOUR OWN DOG BISCUITS

In the Sheltie breed notes in "Dogs World" dated December 18th 1998, Irene Beaden prints a recipe for dog biscuits that can be moderated to your own dogs tastes. It is simple and easy to do and the dogs love the smell of them cooking especially with the added garlic in. It takes 5 minutes to mix and just under 40 minutes to bake.

All you need is : 8 ounces sausage-meat, 8 oz .plain wholemeal flour, 2-3 oz of stock or water (Irene uses a Knorr beef stock cube) and some garlic granules.

Put your oven to 180C/350f, mix the sausage-meat, flour and garlic granules thoroughly and bind with the stock or water to make a very stiff dough. Either roll out on a floured surface to ½ inch thickness and cut into bone shapes or any shape you want. A quicker way is just to roll into 1 ½ inch sausages and squeeze the end to make mini bones. Keep using all the trimmings until all the dough is used.

Put onto un-greased sheets and bake for 30-50 minutes (depending on size). Let them get good and hard but try not to burn them. Let them cool and serve them up as a treat. There is nothing in this recipe that makes it unfit for human consumption should any tricks be played at the New Year.

CHEWY OR CRUNCHY TREATS

1 large can of your favourite premium dog food
1 cup of flour - you may need to add a bit more as the moisture content varies from can to can
1 egg
1 clove of crushed garlic [optional]
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all the ingredients together until you have a consistent somewhat sticky dough. Spread out to desired thickness on a TEFLON baking sheet.
Bake for 45 mins for chewy biscuits or Bake for 1 hour for crunchy biscuits.
Cut into desired shapes or strips and cool on a paper towel. Refridgerate unused potion. Make several batches at once and freeze the remainder for convenience later.