Has anybody got any good receipies for liver cake? I have everything for it but cooking is not my fortae lol.

1LB. WHOLEMEAL FLOUR
1 LB LIVER (LAMBS OR CHICKEN IS BEST)
3 EGGS
2 CLOVES OF GARLIC (IF WANTED)
A LITTLE OIL & MILK

LIQUIDISE ALL INGREDIENTS EXCEPT THE FLOUR.
PUT FLOUR INTO BOWL AND ADD THE LIQUIDISED INGREDIENTS TO IT AND MIX TO A CAKE TYPE CONSISTENCE ADDING MORE MILK & OIL TO ACHIEVE THIS.
PUT INTO MICROWAVE DISH (I USE 2 GLASS LOAF TYPE DISHES) COOK ON FULL POWER FOR APPROX 10 MINUTES. COOL, CUBE OR SLICE AND FREEZE TILL NEEDED.

Another tasty treat which my dogs love is to replace the liver with tinned tuna.  This also saves the horrible mess of liquidised liver :-)

Pretty much like mine except I use self raising flour and oven bake. And yes, Henry in particular always loved tuna cake in place of liver! :-)

Yes, I often use a tin of Pilchards in Tomato and it smells so good I could eat it myself.

Id love to make this for my dogs..trouble is Im physically sick when handling raw meat or fish..hubby has to do it..im not sure he would do the liver cake for me tho!!

Agree my OH has to do the liver but I can manage the pilchard it is the same as doing it to spread on toast.

If you don't like handling raw meat etc, here is one using tuna/sardines:

Tuna/Sardine Brownies (less smelly to make!)

2 cans tuna or sardines in water (don't drain)
2 eggs
1 cup whole wheat flour (up to 1 1/2 cup)
lots of crushed garlic cloves

Pulse the tuna and water in food processor, and add eggs until it is pretty soupy. If it looks thick, add some olive oil. Pour into bowl, add the garlic and add the flour slowly. Mix with a spoon; it should be like really moist brownie dough. Grease a cookie sheet or pizza pan. Smooth it out on the pan.  Cook at 400 degrees for about 15 minutes. Check after 15 minutes: it should be the consistency of putty. Cook longer if needed. Let cool and cut into squares with a pizza cutter. Freeze in bags.

You can use a 1lb of cheddar in place of the liver if you prefer but use no oil, it also works with cornbeef, and spam but you need to add more milk. I have used raw chicken, cooked chicken and leftover meat of all kinds. For the show ring the liver or fish works best as a training titbit anything seems to be fine.

Well I made it and it stunk to high heaven !! lol........ It must be good tho as not only my dogs go mad for it So did my daughter (dirty little minger) lol

Well I made it and it stunk to high heaven !!

For training treats the smellier the better.

The fish ones do smell a bit less than the liver - but the liver is tastier, I think.

Would not know :-O

> Would not know

Never been tempted to take a nibble? Tsk tsk...;)

Lol..thanks for this...I will try it at the wkend..with hubby in reserve incase I cant do it!!

Oh I blew my blender up too lmao x

replace the liver with tinned tuna

Fast becoming the rolls royce of treats given the price of tuna these days--I'm afraid my boys will have to go with the liver. Wish I had a liquidiser--I have one of those double rocker blades, not sure what they are called--makes a pretty unpleasant mess but the dogs love to watch the cookery lesson, their eyes look like dinner plates :)

You can often get Pilchard cheap.

thanks Nova, I'll try this

Tinned sardines are v cheap too, only 20-40p a tin.

Well I have taken the plunge and made a batch using a large tin of Pilchards in Tomato Sauce, then thought whilst i'm at it I would make some cheese and honey biscuits.

1lb Cheese
1lb Flour
4 Eggs
1 tbs Honey
1 tbs Olice Oil

Mix all ingredients together to form a soft dough, then roll out into small ball shapes. Bake for 15 mins at 200 deg. They look good enough to eat.

They look good enough to eat

LOL I was at a show today and down to a last oversized, rock hard chunk of liver cake. There was nothing for it but to break it with my teeth. *eeeeewwww*

A lady at training class made a liver cake, her son came in from the pub late one night and ate the whole lot!!!!!

Ooops!! well it will have boosted his B vitamins!!!

LOL...was he extra obedient the next day?

Does anyone know if you can replace the flour with rye flour?
My girl has a wheat allergy.

I use rice flour to make liver cake for my dogs

I don't see why not, rye just will make it very sticky

Will it make it too sticky to be practical or just stick in the pan?
Perhaps rice flour would be better???

I get my rice flour from tescos and the liver cake doesnt end up sticky

you could try a mix of rye and rice, I have to say I have never used rice flour and don't know what it turns out like; potato flour is another ingredient you could mix in to give more substance

I always use rice flour and to be honest I find it comes out denser than if I use plain flour so it is easier to cut up once cooked

Yes I bought rice flour just for this job and it's excellent.  As dvnbiker says it also seems to make it easier to cut when cooked.  I also lob the whole egg in, shells and all, it does the dogs no harm and doesn't seem to change the consistency much.  Waste not, want not!

What size pieces do you give or cut up?

I thought dogs were not allowed to have garlic?
I read it somewhere.

I was wondering what size to give for training, i know it shouldn't be to big but what size is small?
Would 1 inch be enough for a springer spaniel size dog?
And what size for a yorkshire terrier would half an inch be ok? I really dont have a clue what size to make them.

I cut treats to pea sizes (literally the size of a pea) for my medium gundog breed, although breed size isn't so relevant.  Tiny sized treats are preferred as you might be feeding them a lot during training and don't want to lose their attention, or stuff them so full of food that they stop being keen to work for it.  Some tasks would receive several treats as a reward, others just the tiniest morsel.  Even my terrier type mongrel has a very gentle mouth as my dogs are aware that they sometimes get 'crumbs' and opening their mouths too wide, or snatching, is a bit pointless!!

Garlic in small amounts is fine, you'd have to feed catering quantities to cause issues, and the smell really helps when cooking liver :)

Thanks dogs a babe.

Garlic's quite useful in that, when it's crushed, it releases a compound called allicin which has antibacterial and antiviral properties that were researched by Alexander Fleming at the time of his discovery of pennicillin.  My bitch had a touch of kennel cough on picking her up and it had gone after half a clove daily for 4 days.  My sister has used it with her greyhounds for many years as a preventative for fleas.

i found a recipe that works really good.
227g Liver (lambs)
113g all bran (not the flakes)
2 eggs
1 clove garlic
place all in blender then cook for 45mins gas 4
Dogs love it and because it has the bran its good for dogs who suffer with thei glands as it bulks their toilet out,and never makes them loose

This is the recipe I use from Your Dog magazine a couple of months ago, my Cocker absolutely loves it, I usually make up double the amount and freeze it, I also soak brown rice and add that in to it too, it lasts over a month, she has two squares about an inch sq a day, she suffers with her anal glands, they do seem to be a little better since she's been having it.

In next months magazine, it advertised dog biscuit recipies so looking forward to trying out those.

Kaz

I have just bought a lovely little booklet on Ebay, made & sold in aid of Nowzad Dogs (the ones the soldiers out in Afghanistan have been caring for & rescuing). It has a dozen or so biscuit & treat recipes in it all tending towards wholemeal/gluten free etc. and cost £2 (100% of the sale prixce goes to the charity). Beautifully designed and printed too.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NOWZADS-NIBBLES-TREAT-RECIPE-BOOKLET-NOWZAD-DOGS-/180646291992?pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Dogs&hash=item2a0f5baa18

Hi

Is the all bran you use just from the supermarket the same as what humans eat? My friend makes this with flour but this may be a good alternative for her, she makes the tuna 1 though would this work okay?
Her dog doesn't have any anal gland probs so guess any dog could have this even without anal gland issues

Does human allbran still have a lot of salt in it?  If so might be better to opt for some bran that doesnt have salt added - maybe from a health food shop.

The bran I use is from Tesco Oatbran, it's like a powder and I found it on the cereal section, think it was 99p and it lasts ages, still on my first bag.