Anyone have any recipes for dog treats made from spent grains?

Where's j? (trainer) His web site has recipes for spent grains.

The following is what I copied from somewhere??? Never been to Bodensatz, that I can remember. They're great and my dogs love them. I always keep some on hand. If completely dry, they'll keep for many weeks/months.


Hey Rob, Monty - I'm making these today - recipe on Bodensatz.
Dog biscuits
4 cups spent grain
4 cups flour
1 cup peanut butter
1 egg

Mix together (works well with hands) and roll onto cookie sheet. Score (almost through) into shapes you want, or use a cookie cutter as you would for cookies. They don't spread out and they pretty much end up the thickness you start with. This recipe made one cookie sheet but they are pretty thick so you could adjust that if you want them thinner.

They end up very crisp after they've been baked and dried. Bake at 350 for 30 min. Let cool enough to break them up then place back in the oven to dry for 8-10 hours at 225. You want to make sure they dry adequately, if they look like a fig newton when you break one they're not dry. If they don't dry enough they will mold. Dried thoroughly they will store well in an airtight container.

You can also substitute pizza sauce for the peanut butter, or a bit of garlic oil. Just don't make it too wet.

Sweet! How many does that make?

I double it, but the recipe, as it stands, makes a full, standard (not commercial) baking pan.

I'd try this recipe, as is, first to see if your dogs like them. Some don't.

BB's got it. That's my dogs favorite version. The plain jane baked cookies...

In addition to the suggestions made by BB for the pizza sauce, I've also mixed gravy from the nights dinner in with the mixture. This didn't go over well with the dogs however they all were eaten.

Iams makes a savory sauce used to wet the kibble, I've mixed this in as well as tried basting the cookies. For basting I recommend do this the las 10-30 minutes. If you baste prior to the 8 hour drying, it almost burns the basting.... I've mixed in veggies too.

For family mutts last Christmas, I used food coloring to make them red and green.... Never found green or red land mines... Just don't use too much as it's probably not the best thing for your buddy.

I'll be whipping up a batch in the next few evenings myself...

1 Qt baggies hold approx enough grain to fill my cookie sheet. Once I'm done brewing I'll fill a few baggies and toss them in the deep freeze.

You'll find some cookies don't appeal as well as other do, I liken this to the grains used in the brew.

Don't do this if you first wort hop!! Hops in that amount are toxic to dogs!!

You mean mash hop, right?

He has to mean mash hop. If not, my dogs are dead.

Yes he had to mean Mash Hop. Which as I understand from this forum, is not the best practice.

I have however added spices to the mash with nice results... Here again I didn't use that spent grain for the dogs....

On a side note, Von's (local grocery retailer) just had chicken on sale that # for # compared to the cheapest canned dog food, was still half the cost. 1/2 chicken breast helps feed 2 dogs for nearly a week wiht the kibble...

Yup, sorry, mash hop!! PUI strikes again. . .

Well, my mutt seems to enjoy the treats immensely. Looks like a cheap alternative to milkbones to me!

j and BB - thanks for this recipe and thread...made up a double batch for my black lab this past weekend...he loves them...then again he will eat his own doo doo...but anyway they came out fine

cheers

Bud, I start in Dec and bake until a day or two before xmas.... I make cookies for all the family dogs... I go through about 5# of grain last year on this... only one dog didn't eat them.... I forgot he has no teeth anymore...

Imagine a pit bull with no teeth gumming your leg, DOH!

As I posted the other day I recently had a chance to try this with my newe puppy and she's crazy for them.

I've been giving them out to all the other dog owners I know with the same results. Tonight at the local music in the park I shared one with a dog behind us. Turns out the woman's husband is a brewer too and was happy to hear about the recipe. Obviously her dog loved it too.

hey BB, is it supposed to look like a flour mix and be powdery? looks like too much flour to me but not sure?

It should be like modeling clay and hold together. After it's all mixed together with my hands, I lay the ball in the middle of a baking sheet and press it down to about 1/2" thickness evenly across the pan.

Are you sure you have enough peanut butter in the recipe and the egg?

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The egg is supposed to be the glue I add an extra egg cause it's good for the coat... When you say it's powdery that tells me you didn't mix it enough. I mix with my fingers and get them all goopy.

If you've mixed it and mixed it etc.. and it's still powdery, I'd add more grain, PB and or egg.

I recently tried burying a dehydrated chicken strip bits in the cookies. While they like them, most dogs sniff much longer trying to figure it out...

Edit: Thought, I wonder if V8 juice would add goodness that the dogs systems can use... Hmmm maybe I'll have to grab a can and try it... Anyone else try this yet?

i figured it out with BB's help. my grains weren't as wet cuz i had frozen them prior, a little more water and another scoop of grain that was the ticket

I started mixing it up with the bread arm in my KitchenAid mixer and it get's a nice texture that way. Then I just drop it into a cookie sheet and use a rolling pin to spread/even it out.

The last batch I mixed in some drippings from a pot roast and I think my dog likes it less than the straight PB biscuits. I didn't try this batch but it must be a clashing flavor.

Next batch I'm going to try skipping the PB and adding tomato sauce instead.

Our pups didn't like the pizza sauce but my BILs dog did.

He likes dumpster diving though

FreezIng grain works well

Just whipped up a batch of these yesterday - two egss is my standard, and that seems to be just right . . . happy puppies!