MUESLI RUSKS

Ingredients

700g muesli cereal

700g butter
500g sugar
750ml buttermilk
1,5kg self-raising flower
40g baking powder
7ml salt

Method

• Heat the butter and sugar until the shortening has melted. Remove from the stove.
• Beat buttermilk and eggs together.
• Stir the buttermilk mixture into the sugar mixture.
• Sift the self-raising flour, baking powder and salt together. Add the muesli and mix. Add this to the sugar mixture and mix well.
• Spoon the dough into four greased loaf tins (1,5 litres each).
• Bake the rusks for about 30 minutes at 180°C and then for about 40 minutes at 160°C until golden brown.
• Leave to cool in the tins for a few minutes, then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
• Cut each loaf into rusk-sized portions.
• Dry out overnight in a cool oven with the oven door slightly ajar.

Makes about 120 rusks.