Dog Food

Ingredients

• a light breakfast of Spratt’s meat biscuits
• soaked in hot broth
• milk
• Swiss milk
• water
• well-cooked cabbage
• fat added
• clean paunch
• sheep’s heads
• fresh bullock’s liver
• rich bones

Method

1. 1

   Feed a light breakfast of Spratt’s meat biscuits dry, breaking them into little pieces for small dogs.

2. 2

   In the evening, give a full meal of the same biscuits soaked in hot broth, milk, or Swiss milk and water.

3. 3

   Occasionally boil biscuits with clean paunch, sheep’s heads, fresh bullock’s liver, or rich bones, adding well-cooked cabbage or other vegetables and a little fat.

As published

This recipe was extracted from English and French cookery (1890) by Percy Lindley, page 120. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Water Purification. — First among matters of sanitation stands the maintenance, pure and undefiled, of the domestic water supply. House-cisterns and water-butts ought all to be emptied and thoroughly scrubbed out once, if not twice, every year, and a little of Condy’s Fluid should be added to the water with which this is done, so as to entirely remove all impurities. It is the only preparation available for this purpose, as it leaves neither taste nor smell after use. Nor need there be any fear in using Condy’s Fluid for this purpose, as it is not a poison. It is extensively used in India for purifying water for drink- ing, and is ordered by the Board of Trade to be carried by ships for the purpose of being added to the water in their tanks when it goes foul, as it is so apt to do in warm latitudes. Full directions for cleaning cisterns, etc., accompany each bottle of the fluid. PART XY. DIET AND COOKERY FOR DOGS. Well-nigh every home now has its dog or dogs, and as with man the health and comfort of his 1 four-footed faithful servitor and friend ’ depends, however little the fact may be recognised, upon regularity in living, and the nature of the food given him. In the domesticated state the digestive organs of the canine, more particularly among the higher and valuable breeds, are far from strong as is popularly supposed. On the contrary, his organization is complex and delicate, as any experienced breeder will at once confirm. Not uncommonly we hear people say, ‘ Oh, a dog’s stomach will digest anything.’ Many, unfortunately, act up to this ignorant belief, the life, and when not the life, the vigour of the animal being cruelly sacrificed. And why this unintentional cruelty ? Because the dog in order to assist a naturally weak digestion delights to gnaw bones, and at time, for some occult reason, displays a morbid appetite for offal, filth, and putrid flesh, from which depravities he should be relentlessly driven seeing how often they engender serious, sometimes fatal diseases. To be in good health, and to retain it, the ‘ canine ’ needs to be judiciously, regularly, and well fed ; his food should be thoroughly cooked and adapted to his individual powers and condi- tions of existence, care being taken to overcome any innate objection to a partly vegetarian diet, without which action will be irregular, and suffering ensue. Animals used in early life to Spratt’s Puppy Pood, or whose mothers were fed on Spratt’s biscuits before whelping, seldom display this troublesome dislike to vegetables. With a 1 dainty feeding ’ puppy, who shows repugnance to diet other than he particularly fancies, it is equally essential to conquer. Perhaps the surest and safest way to accomplish this is to leave an option between broken fibrine cake and enjoying the pangs of hunger. Pup’s decision is certain. Cat’s meat should never be given dogs, although some like it well. Apart from the constant hazard of infection it entails, horseflesh is commonly salted to prevent it turning putrid, especially in summer. It is then injurious, besides causing the breath to smell unpleasantly. Por pet-dogs its use should be absolutely tabooed. In a sense, but only in a sense, the dog is omnivorous. By this we mean that collectively dogs eat almost anything, whereas individual tastes widely differ. Some animals display a predilection for one sort of meat, others for some other sort. Some, again, are disposed towards fish, bread, fruit, pastry and sweets. A pug-dog lying at our feet goes visibly into ecstacies over bread-and-cheese. Similarly, dogs who have been reared upon Spratt’s Puppy Pood and biscuits usually prefer and 144 ENGLISH AND FRENCH COOKERY. thrive best on that firm’s patent fibrine cakes, which Mr. Hugh Dalziel — now the chief authority upon dogs— has pronounced, in summing up the merits of the various foods, as the best all-round dietary for the canine race — an opinion our experience fully endorses. In these cakes, beetroot is skilfully blended in scientific proportions with American beef fibrine, oatmeal, wheat flour and dates ; beetroot, alone among vegetables, retaining its properties unimpaired when made into biscuit, thus guarding against irregularity, a common disorder w'ith household pets who so often miss the invigorating matutinal run. In feeding, give a light breakfast of Spratt’s meat biscuits, dry, (for small dogs break up into little pieces) and in the evening a full meal of the same soaked in hot broth, milk, or Swiss milk and water, while to obviate satiety from too constant sameness in diet, either clean paunch, sheep’s heads, fresh bullock’s liver or rich bones may be occasionally boiled with the biscuit, and a little well-cooked cabbage or other vege- table and fat added

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.