Nutty Rusks
I just love my Five Roses Tea in the morning. It is a great way to start my day with a great cup of Tea and a rusk. These rusks are the perfect combination to go with my morning Tea. I just love dunking them into my Tea. A typical way of how South Africans eat rusks. Ronel has been baking in her kitchen in Montpellier and I was lucky to get some of her homemade nutty rusks to take home and enjoy with my Tea.
NUTTY RUSKS
1kg flour
8 teaspoons baking powder
(40ml) OR 1kg self raising flour
2 teaspoons baking powder (10ml)
500ml muesli
250ml seeds eg sunflower / pumpkin / sesame
250ml crushed nuts eg pecan / pistachio / cashew
125ml coconut
500ml all bran
500ml brown sugar (very sweet) I usually put 250ml raisins/cranberries in measuring cup and add sugar until volume is 500ml
You can also omit fruit and decrease amount of sugar
2 extra big eggs
500g butter, melted
500ml buttermilk / lait fermente / amazi
1 apple: peeled and grated
Method
1. Oven 180 C
2. Mix dry ingredients together
3. add rest of ingredients and mix together
4. Put in either breadpans / ruskpan / large rectangular pan
5. Bake 45-60min
6. Cool down slightly
7. Cut into fingers
8. Pack rusks out and dry it at 100 C
