Rusk could be a reasonably dough incorporating sugar, eggs, and butter. it's formed into a loaf or cylinder, baked, cooled, sliced then dried in low heat till hard. Rusks have a really low tide content and keep well for extended periods. Sharing a standard origin with the trendy biscuit, medieval rusks were referred to as panis biscoctus, which means twice-cooked bread, and were used as provision for armies and ships bewildered.
In several countries there are breads which will fit rusks, therein they're basically oven-dried bread, whether or not plain just like the Italian bruschetta or of a sweet kind [like the cake rusks of pre-Partition India]; however they will incorporate alternative ingredients like spices [cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg] or cracked.
Ingredients
2 cups flour
6 eggs
225 grams butter
2 tsp. vanilla essence
3 tsp. baking powder (level)
½ tsp. salt
1 ¼ cup powder sugar
Orange food colouring
Method
Preheat oven 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Cream butter and eggs in a cake mixer, add sugar and vanilla and mix, adding all dry ingredients and food colouring and mix. Once cake batter is ready, pour it into a greased 8 x 8 inch pan and bake for 55 minutes.
Once cake is ready let cool and slice, re-bake directly on the oven rack in a 300 degree Fahrenheit oven for 20 minutes. Let cool and harden completely and enjoy with a cup of tea, milk or coffee. Store in an airtight cookie jar.


