Buttermilk Beskuit (Rusks)

Ingredients

• 4 cups flour
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 2 cups bran / 4 bricks wheatabix
• 3 blocks margarine / 375 ml butter
• 2 eggs
• 500 ml buttermilk
• 1.5 cups sugar / 300 ml
• Salt to taste

Method

Pre heat oven to 180 degrees Celsius (375 Fahrenheit)

Sift flour and salt in big mixing bowl
Rub butter/margarine into flour
Add bran / wheatabix.

In a separate bowl, wisk eggs and sugar until creamy
Add buttermilk and baking powder and mix until fluffy.

Pour in with dry ingredients and mix with hands

Pour in deep oven pan, or pack as balls tightly into pan

Bake for about 40 mins.

Take out of pan and let cool down for 10 mins
Break/cut it into bricks and layer loosely in pan(s)

Dry in open oven at 75 degrees Celsius until dry (or about 6-8 hours)

Substitutions

Buttermilk: 500 ml milk with tsp lemon juice and let stand for 10 mins