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In Which Wilby Finds Work To his Liking,
And Shares A Favourite Recipe
Really, I am kept so busy supervising all the building and gardening work going on around this place I wonder where the Eco-Gardener thinks I get the time to be pushy. Or the energy. I am usually worn out by afternoon tea time, and much in need of my special biscuit. Yet on Thursday afternoon, instead of being offered my biscuit, the E-G hauled me out to the car, and told me she had a special job for me.
I was extremely dubious about this, and looked around to see if she had a bucket of sudsy water and a cleaning cloth, or other such horrid things. But no, she opened the front passenger door, and motioned me inside. At this point I realised that she did have a cleaning job in mind, but an extremely specialised one, to which I was particularly suited. On the floor of the car was a quite delicious mess. Small pieces and crumbs of Orange Honey Polenta Cake were strewn everywhere, while a long strip of mascarpone was schmeared right where a passenger's toes would usually go.
Apparently she had managed to drive this cake on its tray right over the long winding hill road to Diamond Harbour for a special celebration, but only 50 metres from her destination she had to brake sharply when a car came round a blind corner, and - calamity! Well, for the appearance of the cake, anyway. Not for its taste, and not for the interior of the car either, because after my expert attentions not one trace of the accident was left.
The only downside to working so hard at this cleaning job, when I should have been on my break, was that I was not rewarded with a biscuit afterwards. Can you believe it?! As they say - it's a dog's life. Nevertheless, I have prevailed upon the E-G to type up the biscuit recipe, and make it available here, so if the Master of Good Hope is reading this, I hope he makes a copy. Enjoy!
PEANUT BUTTER AND VANILLA DOG TREAT BISCUITS
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups water
1/2 cups cooking oil
2 eggs
3-4 tablespoons peanut butter
1-2 teaspoons vanilla essence
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup unbleached white flour
1/2 cup cornmeal
1/2 cup rolled oats
Additional flour for rolling
Method
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C.
Mix the water, oil, eggs, peanut butter, and vanilla together with a wire whisk.
Add the flours, cornmeal, and oats.
Combine with a mixer, or just beat well by hand.
Add more flour if the dough is too wet to work easily.
Take half the dough and place it on a floured surface.
Flour the top of dough.
Knead it gently, adding more flour if necessary to form a pliable dough.
Roll the dough out to around 1 cm inch thickness and cut it into
shapes using cookie cutters.
Repeat until all the dough is used.
Place the biscuits on an ungreased baking tray.
Bake for 20-25 minutes, depending on the thickness of the biscuits.
Leave then in the oven for 20 minutes after turning the oven off,
to crisp.
Cool on a wire rack. When cold, store in an airtight container.
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