Sheep Treats

My own recipe.
Sheep love it, it's easy,
and it's easily adaptable.








Ingredients:

1/2 Cup Flour
1/2 Cup Molasses
1/2 Cup Vegetable oil (Just not Olive Oil)
1 Cup Sugar
1/2 Cup Oats (i.e. Quaker Oatmeal, or rolled oats normally given as feed)
1/4 teaspoon Salt

Add one of the following:

Raisins, 1/4 cup
Apple, finely chopped or dried, 1/4 cup
Carrots, finely chopped, 1 - 2 carrots (You don't need to peel them)


Directions:

Preheat your oven to 350 F.
Mix Flour, Sugar, Salt, and any other dry fruit/oats/carrots
Add Oil and Molasses and mix until thoroughly blended.
The mixture should be thick and sticky. If it's too runny, add more flour.
Cover a large cookie sheet with aluminum foil (No oil required)
Roll out or flatten the mixture by hand to approx 1/4-inch thick.
Place into oven for 15 minutes.
Remove and allow to cool down slightly.
While slightly warm, use a large butcher knife of pizza cutter to score the sheet of treats into 1/2 - 1 inch eatable squares.
Refrigerate, and once cold, break apart and place into a ziplock bag for storage.



**Note-- The first time I made this treat they seemed runny and undercooked so I placed them back into the oven for another 15 minutes; that was a mistake and the sugar caramelized and smelled slightly burned (the sheep didn't like that smell much). These treats are NOT like dry cookies but are oily like a heavy buttered bread and soft like a very wet sweat or show feed. Refrigeration makes them slightly harder and easier to remove from the foil intact.
 
Any way you cut these (cold or warm), the sheep will love them; even the crumbs. Don't be surprised the first time they try these in that they might seem indifferent to them. It's the second or third time they eat these that you'll see they're HOOKED like a kid on candy.