i took a look at the recipes, and since i don't have molasses on hand i just winged a recipe of my own, lol. they're in the oven baking/drying right now, hope they turn out!
all i used was:
hay chaff (primarily from oxbow botanical, and a good bit of the herbs are in the chaff)
handful of shredded wheats, spoon size
enough water to make it mash together and hold (i just kept adding tiny amounts of water while mixing until the consistency was good)
about a teaspoon and a half of butternut squash baby food, just to give a lil flavour and bind it better. (the amount of squash per cookie will be teensy tiny). i saw recipes that called for canned pumpkin, so squash would be ok too, right? (i had the baby food leftover from when i used to make calcium enriched gel food for my snails).
mixed, mixed, and mixed some more, lol, and made little pressed piles on the cookie sheet. i didn't measure anything really, but the little piles are each 1/2 to 1 inch long, most of them roundish shape. there's 20 on the sheet and i have enough mix leftover to make about 20 more.
it sure smelled good while mixing! then again, i'm a former 'barn brat', lol, so i love the smell of hay.
i'm going to park my butt in front of the oven door now, to keep an eye on Rhino's treats. gotta make sure they don't burn! i think an hour at 225F will do, eh? and then cool for a while on the counter, of course.
nicest thing about these, if they turn out, is that they are 95% hay, so Rhino can have a whole one. spoiled lil guy....... lol.
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