Ouma Buttermilk Rusks 500 g

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Disclosure: The Ouma in the photograph on every box of rusks is not Ouma Nannie. The photographs of the real Nannie in the factory’s scrapbook show a youthful, rather beautiful woman. The real ‘Ouma’, Nannie Greyvensteyn, is the lady on the left. But would they sell further afield? Handily, her husband Thys Greyvensteyn had the Ford dealership in town. Her son Leon decided to take one of the Ford bakkies on the road to test out the market for his mother’s rusks up north. An AGA is the secret weapon of many a farmer’s wife. With its four smaller ovens burning constantly at different temperatures, it’s the perfect vessel for the chain production of rusks. All rusks are twice-baked, as the French-origin Afrikaans word “beskuit” suggests. However, if you only have a conventional oven, this means continually turning the oven higher and lower for the baking and drying out processes, respectively. An AGA, on the other hand, can handle the first bake of the dough while also drying out the rusks as needed in the second phase – all at once. The treat remained relatively inconspicuous within the Afrikaner community until 1939, amid the Great Depression, when one Elizabeth Ann Greyvensteyn from Molteno started a rusk business in response to an initiative by the town’s pastor, encouraging women from this rural community to help make some money. Ouma Rusks was born, signalling the inevitable commercialisation of buttermilk rusks. And it hasn’t stopped since. Not for the Molteno’s national icon, or for the women who continue to bake to help sustain their communities and families. Ouma Rusks remains Molteno’s most important industry and is the biggest employer for locals in a radius of 150km.

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By Julienne du Toit, Pictures by Chris Marais – buy a copy of Julienne and Chris’ ‘Moving to the Platteland’ here. Rusk Test by Barry Hilton

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Baking your own rusks is easy once you know how! But how to perfect them? Follow these tips. Before you get started Buttermilk rusks have stood the test of time and continue to morph to incorporate new food trends. These healthy muesli rusks contain little sugar and lots of seeds and nuts. (Photo: Louzel Lombard Steyn)a b Esterhuizen, Idéle. "Foodcorp invests R47mn in E Cape upgrade, retains 250 jobs" . Retrieved 2016-07-30. How a private-public partnership saved the historic Eastern Cape town of Molteno". Ouma. 5 November 2013. Archived from the original on 15 May 2014. They were first sold under the brand name "Outspan Rusks" but was changed soon after to ' Ouma' (Afrikaans for grandmother). [8] [9] The cookie is set by Krux Digital under the domain krxd.net. The cookie stores a unique ID to identify a returning user for the purpose of targeted advertising.