Sparky Doodle Dandies
Happy 4th. of July
Meet Sparky Whann
And His
Sparky Doodle Dandies
When I adopted Spooky and Sparky I would always refer to Sparky as “Sparky Doodle Dandie.” Therefore, it made sense that we would make some Sparky Doodle Dandie Dog Biscuits for the 4th. of July.
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Here Sparky and I are Ready to Start
Sparky is Ready to EAT
These are very simple to make and only has a few ingredients. I suggest shopping for them in the health food section of your grocery store.
Ingredients:
1 Cup Creamy Peanut Butter (No Salt, No Sugar)
2 Cups of Hot Water
3 Cups of Plain Oats
1 Cup of All-Purpose Flour
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This Peanut Butter brand is delicious! It is Organic MaraNatha. No Sugar or Salt added.
This is the kind of Peanut Butter I was raised on. My parents didn’t buy the Peter Pan’s or Skippy’s, or Jif’s. They bought the pure Peanut Butter that you had to stir up with a knife before you ate it because of all the oil floating around in the jar. This Peanut Butter isn’t oily at all, not that that would be bad, it’s just very nice and creamy.
Place into a Medium Sized Mixing Bowl the Peanut Butter. Then Add your Hot Water. We just placed it in the microwave to heat it up. You just need it warm enough to have it blend with the Peanut Butter and kind of melt it a bit.
Next add the plain Oats and the All-Purpose Flour and stir together until combined.
Add some Parchment Paper to a Baking Sheet and then start forming your Dog Biscuits.
This is the fun part! Be creative!
If the dough starts to stick to your hands then just use a dusting of Flour over them to help prevent the sticking. We noticed that as the dough sat a little bit it was easier to form. Gordon also noticed that he could make the Dog Bone shapes easier by forming them while on the baking sheet. In other words just place a blob of dough down onto the Parchment Paper and start working it into a shape that way instead of holding it in your hands and trying to form a Bone that way.
Turn the Oven on 350F and when it comes to temperature place your Dog Biscuits in to cook a good hour.
I started peeking at 40 minutes and I even turned the trays around to get more even cooking but they did take an hour to bake.
We are on the Home Stretch!
The Enthusiasm is Killing Me
Out of the Oven and Cooling
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Now For The Decorations
Although they look and taste perfectly fine as they are…
Yogurt Chips, and a few Sprinkles
The other things you see above are how we are going to present them as gifts to the cousins, Chewie and Hank.
Melting Yogurt Chips in the Microwave
(Heat on high every 20 seconds, stirring in between until they are melted enough to use.)
We already had the Yogurt chips from a cooking project earlier this year so I decided to use these up. This is NOT White Chocolate! It is Yogurt. Dogs can eat Yogurt BUT, they can have a hard time digesting it. Which is why these are yearly treats and not regular treats.
Sparky LOVED the Yogurt!
Here we are spreading some of the melted Yogurt onto a few of the Treats and then adding a few Sprinkles while the Yogurt is still soft.
Sharing a Biscuit with my Sparky
Don’t they Look Nice?
Spooky is a Yankee Doodle Sweetheart
Happy 4th. of July!
Julie
Sparky Doodle went to Tampa just to find a family,
he is our Spar kee Doo dle Booooooooooy! 🙂
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The 1775 Lyrics to Yankee Doodle
(They are not exactly as we know them today.)
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The Farmer and his Son’s return from a visit to the CAMP.
Father and I went down to camp,
Along with Captain Gooding,
And there we see the men and boys
As thick as hasty pudding.
Yankey doodle keep it up,
Yankey doodle dandy,
Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy
And there we see a thousand men,
As rich as ‘Squire David,
And what they wasted every day,
I wish it had been saved.
Yankey doodle, &c.
The ‘lasses they eat every day,
Would keep an house a winter;
They have as much that I’ll be bound,
They eat it when they’re mind to.
Yankey doodle, &c.
And there we see a swamping gun,
Large as a log of maple,
Upon a ducid little cart,
A load for father’s cattle.
Yankey doodle, &c.
And every time they shoot it off,
It takes a horn of powder,
And makes a noise like father’s gun,
Only a nation louder.
Yankey doodle, &c.
I went as nigh to one myself,
As ‘Siah’s underpinning;
And father when as nigh again,
I thought the duce was in him.
Yankey doodle, &c.
Cousin Simon grew so bold,
I thought he would have cock’d it;
It scar’d me so I shriek’d it off,
And hung by father’s pocket.
Yankey doodle, &c.
And captain Davis had a gun,
He kind of clapt his hand on’t,
And stuck a crooked stabbing iron
Upon the little end on’t.
Yankey doodle, &c.
And there I see a pumpkin shell,
As big as mother’s bason,
And every time they touch’d it off,
They scamper’d like the nation.
Yankey doodle, &c.
I see a little barrel too,
The heads were made of leather,
They knock upon with little clubs,
And call’d the folks together.
Yankey doodle, &c.
And there was captain Washington,
And gentlefolks about him,
They say he’s grown so tarnal proud,
He will not ride without them.
Yankey doodle, &c.
He got him on his meeting clothes,
Upon a slapping stallion,
He set the world along in rows,
In hundreds and in millions.
Yankey doodle, &c.
The flaming ribbons in his hat,
They look’d so taring fine ah,
I wanted pockily to get,
To give to my Jemimah.
Yankey doodle, &c.
I see another snarl of men,
A digging graves they told me,
So tarnal long, so tarnal deep,
They ‘tended they should hold me.
Yankey doodle, &c.
If scar’d me so I hook’d it off,
Nor stopt as I remember,
Nor turn’d about ’till I got home,
Lock’d up in mother’s chamber.
Yankey doodle, &c.2
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Many later settings of the tune of “Yankee Doodle” reflect other events, such as the surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781.
Cornwallis led a country dance
The like was never seen, sir,
Much retrograde, and much advance,
And all with General Greene, sir3
A blaze of patriotic passion was ignited in 1798 by French spoliation of American shipping. The following song even refers to the use of the tune for many purposes.
Sing Yankee Doodle, that fine tune,
Americans delight in;
It suits for peace, it suits for fun,
It suits as well for fighting.
Yankee doodle (mind the tune)
Yankee doodle dandy,
If Frenchmen come with naked bum,
We’ll spank ‘em hard and handy.4