Buttermilk Rusks

Ingredients: 1 kg self-rising flour 2 eggs 200ml (4/5 cup) sugar 190g butter, melted 500ml buttermilk 5ml (1 tsp) baking powder 10 ml salt

Method: 1.Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl. 2.Beat the eggs, sugar and buttermilk together. 3.Cut this mixture into the dry ingredients with a knife. 4.Knead the dough lightly, gradually adding the butter while kneading. This will take about 7 minutes. 5.Roll dough into balls. Place balls of the dough next to each other in bread tins. The balls should reach to about 2/3 the height of the tin. 6.Place in the oven immediately and bake at 180 deg C for 30 minutes. 7.Turn out onto a cooling rack and break into individual rusks. 8.Lower the heat of the oven to 100 deg C or less and dry the rusks in the oven. Turn them every 30 minutes.