Muesli Rusks

A few months ago while out shopping for a new cooker for our kitchen that we were renovating. I was looking for a completely gas unit but I repeatedly got told to go for the gas hob and the electric oven, one of the reasons being, was that you could not make rusks in the gas oven....ha!! Never say never to a blond....its like a challenge and as Saturday loomed rainy and cold it was time to take up the challenge....

 

Ingredients

 

6 cups brown flour (wholewheat)

2 cups Muesli (I used one with nuts)

2 cups Corn Flakes (or use All Bran)

1 cup brown sugar

3 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

1 1/2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda

2 cups plain yoghurt

2 jumbo eggs (at room temperature)

500g butter, melted

 

Method

 

1. Preheat the oven to 190 C

2. Combine the flour, Muesli, Corn Flakes, sugar, baking powder, salt, cream of tartar and bicarbonate of soda in a large mixing bowl.

 

 

3. Add the remaining ingredients and mix well until the dough is soft. Its should look rather sticky.

 

 

4. Coat three loaf pans with cooking spray and then a sprinkle of the brown flour.

5. Shape the dough into balls and place two balls side by side in rows into the prepared pans.

6. Bake for about 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the rusks comes out clean.

7. Turn out onto a cooling rack and leave to cool.

8. When cool, break the rusks into smaller pieces.

9. Dry out the rusks at 100 C for about 6 hours on baking sheets. My gas ovens coolest setting is 150 C so they only took about 3 1/2 hours to dry out.

 

 

"Marmite", the resident woof......who is not allowed in the kitchen....trying his best to get closer to the yummy smell of rusks!