Bacon Dog Treats

6 slices cooked bacon – crumbled (extra bacon never hurt anything)
4 eggs, well beaten
1/8 cup bacon fat
1 cup water
1/2 cup non fat dry milk powder
2 cups graham flour (which I can never find so I use whole wheat flour)
2 cups wheat germ (substituted whole oats when I ran out one time)
1/2 cup corn meal

(I will give you the directions as is, then I will add what I have learned)
Mix ingredients with a strong spoon; drop heaping tablespoons onto a greased baking sheet. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 15 minutes. Turn off oven and leave cookies on baking sheet in the oven overnight to dry out. Yield: about 4 dozen dog cookies. – Bullwinkle.com

Okay, here is what I have experienced when making these: a strong spoon does not help when the dough is so thick my arms are not strong enough to mix it. I just roll up my sleeves and get my hands messy. The dough also does not spread at all. Whatever you blob on the cookie sheet is what will come off the cookie sheet. With the bacon bits and any crisping the cookies do, there can be sharp little points if you just blob it on. I recommend forming small-ish, flat-ish circles or in this case, hearts. The dough is pretty sticky, so I spray my fingers with cooking spray to manipulate shapes. The flattening of the dough also helps with more even baking. My cookies usually bake for longer than 15 minutes, I look for browning and I do leave them in the oven overnight. Other than the samples the dogs get of course. Yield: two happy dogs in my house.