{"id":981,"date":"2012-05-15T17:11:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T16:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/?p=981"},"modified":"2012-06-09T00:43:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T23:43:29","slug":"making-grass-biscuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/15\/making-grass-biscuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Grass Biscuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scamp has almost finished his last batch of treats, and the one thing the soggy weather has been good for is growing grass – so I thought: how about some grass based treats.<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/h2>\n

I wrote the quantities down as I made it, but then misplaced the piece of paper, but I think it was about 400g of grass, three bananas and a handful of oats. As I was making it up as I went along, I don’t think it matters if you get creative with the quantities. My mix made two A4 sized trays.<\/p>\n

Directions<\/h2>\n

Step 1:<\/strong> Finely chop some grass (as demonstrated by my mum), we used scissors, but I guess if you can do super-speed chief style chopping you could use a knife.<\/p>\n

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Step 2:<\/strong> Add other ingredients. We added oats for\u00a0 biscuitness and banana to bind it together. Top tip – mash the banana and then put it in. It’s tricky trying to mash in with the grass.<\/p>\n

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Step 3:<\/strong> Mix it all together, like so…<\/p>\n

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Step 4:<\/strong> Dodge rabbit skidding around kitchen floor in paper bag (aka grass collection device)\"\"<\/p>\n

Step 5:<\/strong> Press mixture into tray; it needs to be quite thin (5mm) as grass contains a lot of moisture that needs to dry out. I also tried scoring it but it didn’t really help when it came to breaking it into pieces later.<\/p>\n

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Step 6:<\/strong> Bake on low heat for several hours – it took about 3hrs at 130 degrees<\/p>\n

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Step 7:<\/strong> Prise out of tray (yep, not the prettiest of treats to look at)<\/p>\n

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Step 8:<\/strong> Conduct a taste test, verdict: very yummy thanks!<\/p>\n

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Step 9 :<\/strong> Do the washing up!<\/p>\n

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Licking the bowl is the best bit of cooking!<\/p><\/div>\n

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They aren’t quite so pretty as the Fenugreek & Banana rabbit treats<\/a> but should be very healthy as they are mainly grass. Scamp is a good hay\/grass eater anyway but I wonder if a bunny that’s not so keen might enjoy these as a sneaky way to increase their hay intake. I imagine you could use hay instead of grass and they’d cook quicker. Perhaps next time we’ll try a cross between these and the previous treats.<\/p>\n

If you give it ago let me know what your bunny thinks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Scamps next batch of treats, I used a grass based mix – here are instructions on how to make your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[30,60,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}