[Dailydrool] Sweet potato/yammy treets

[Drew McQuade]

After looking in the archives and not finding this, I checked out my 
computer. Here is an original post that gives the recipe. But I have never 
tried them because I was not sure exactly how to place the treats. If Houndy 
2 is still around, maybe she can clarify?
Pam, food slave to the Dashing Bassets

Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:34:02 ESTFrom: Houndy2 at aol.comSubject: 
[Dailydrool] Sharing Simone's Secret Rescue Treet Recipe With        DDTo: 
dailydrool at proctorhome.net Simone's Yammy Treets Aunty Sandy first gave us 
good advice about making these. Here is the BEST SECRET: The trick is to 
just DO IT...MAKE THEM that's all. Just make em and you will be amazed! Just 
make em! You won't be sorry the hounds will LOVE them and you will find it 
is wayyy easy. All dogs need a good  healthy treet. Especially Rescue 
Dogs..so this is what we do here for making home made dog treets: We buy a 
big sack of Yams/Sweet Potatoes at Costco Heat your oven to 350 and then 
slice up the vegetables (we do ALLLL  vegetables celery root, beets, 
potatoes carrots now not just Yams) into  whatever shapes you please..up to 
about 1/4 in width)  If I feel strong I just cut the Yams into LONG 
slices..takes more muscle  power and a bit more care so that you don't cut 
YOURSELF...lol but the dogs just  LOVE a HUGE "Yammy Chip" as we call em. 
Lay the coins or slices all around  the pan and tip them up on the lip of 
the heavy baking sheet. (we have usedwire  racks but that takes longer to 
set them in as they sometimes "fall through" the  rack..and setting them on 
their sides into the rack ALSO takes too  long... if you just simply tip up 
the slices sort of on the lip and just a  tiny bit over as in a 
fan...leaving as much surface to the air as  possible. Fill a couple of 
heavy baking sheets with the vegetable slices. Turn  down the oven to 200 
and slide in the sheets to bake for  at least about  and hour and a half 
then...just quickly flip all the slices over with your  fingers..no need for 
forks or spatulas...believe me we have tried every way  to make this 
easy...the reason you need to flip them is to let them dry more on  both 
sides... to dry and cook the other side. Take them out when  you think they 
are "done" or ..when you have the time...if you forget and they  get 
BLACK..you know what..they dogs still just adore them...it is best though 
when they still have COLOR and are ..just slightly leathery. When we first 
started making these we would put the oven on "Warm" and put  them in ..in 
the evening and take them out in the morning. You will find  the best way 
for your lifestyle.  I've discovered that it only takes about 3 hours total 
to do them...and  that they do not have to be baked till they are black as 
we read in a  recipe lol...You can just take them out when it is convenient 
for you...  You can not wreck them. The dogs will adore them. Really.  If 
you wish to wash the Yams first with water and a brush..that is  good..but 
you know..we have found that the Yams are really clean and we now just wipe 
them off with a damp towel and they really are so easy to make.... we  have 
been feeding them to the dogs for 6 months like this and there is no 
problem...(I used to PEEL the Yams before baking but when "Banjo and Henry 
GOBBLED up the pile of peelings...that were on the cutting board when I left 
once to answer the door...that's when I stopped peeling the Yams....why make 
it  harder than you have to?!)  The trick is to just try em!  Maybe our dogs 
are "hard up for treets" with so many dogs in the house..maybe it IS an 
orphanage this Rescue  House but we have tried giving them to  our Friends 
Pampered  Loved  dogs and they LOVE them too.