Dog Biscuit and Lard Mixture
Ingredients
Directions
Grind the dry dog biscuits to a moderately fine powder.
Mix 70 parts of the ground biscuits with 30 parts of melted lard.
Allow the mixture to cool.
Pass the cooled mixture several times through a meat-chopping machine to create a homogeneous paste.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Dry dog biscuits
- Provide the bulk of the mixture, forming the solid base that gives the paste its body.
- Lard
- Melts and coats the biscuit particles, adding fat that binds them into a smooth, cohesive paste.
The step that matters
Passing the cooled mixture through the meat-chopping machine several times. Repeated passes break up and distribute the fat evenly through the powder, so the paste becomes homogeneous rather than crumbly or greasy in patches.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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