"Forgotten" Dog Biscuit Recipe

By Nancy Madison

In this romantic comedy, the rocky road to love just got rougher. Jake Malone's dead sure he doesn't need anyone to complete or complicate his life.

Meeting the self-assured loner, Carly Anderson disagrees and vows to pursue Jake until he catches her. In her quest, Carly's helped or hindered by a wanna-be Stallone, a larcenous film producer who preys on lonely women and a granny with a black Labrador and a Harley.

"Forgotten" Dog Biscuit Recipe

Neither overtly salty nor sweet, and with a pleasantly grainy texture, these biscuits won a loyal following among dogs — as well as humans.

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/4 cups whole-wheat flour
• 1 1/4 cups cornmeal
• 1 1/4 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
• 1/2 cup toasted wheat germ
• 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup) cold unsalted butter, cut into tablespoon pieces
• 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon water
• 1 large egg

• Special equipment: a pastry or bench scraper;
•  If you don't have a dog-biscuit cookie cutter, you can use a glass and make plain round ones.

Preparation

Pulse flours, cornmeal, oats, wheat germ, brown sugar, baking powder, and salt in a food processor until combined. Add butter and pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal with pea-size butter lumps. Add 1 cup water and pulse until a coarse, dense dough forms. 

Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead . Gather, then halve dough with scraper. Form into 2 balls and flatten each into a 6-inch disk. 

Put oven racks in upper and lower thirds of oven and preheat oven to 350°F. Grease 2 large baking sheets. 

Roll out 1 disk of dough into a round (1/3 inch thick) on a well-floured surface with a well-floured rolling pin. (If dough becomes too soft to roll out, wrap in plastic and chill until firm.) 

Cut out as many biscuits as possible and arrange about 1/4 inch apart on 1 baking sheet. 

Gather scraps and reroll, then cut out more biscuits. Repeat with remaining dough, using other baking sheet. 

Whisk together egg and 1 tablespoon water. Brush biscuit tops with egg wash and bake, switching position of sheets halfway through, until tops are golden brown, about 35 minutes total. 

Turn off oven and "Forget" to take the biscuits out until tomorrow morning. 

Cooks' note: Biscuits keep, layered between sheets of wax paper or parchment, in an airtight container at room temperature 1 month. Or indefinitely in a zip lock bag in the refrigerator. But if your Pooch is like ours, they won't last long.