SOUTH AFRICAN RUSKS 

 Ingredients
500g butter
1¾ cups sugar
2 cups (500 ml) buttermilk     

1 teaspoon lemon juice                           
3 large eggs                                                
1 kg self-raising flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon (5ml) salt
6 cups (240g) All-Bran wheat flakes
1 ¼ cup (100g) uncooked oats
½ cup (100 gram) chopped pecan nuts or chopped almonds

Melt the butter and let it cool down.
Beat eggs, sugar and buttermilk into the melted butter.
Sift the self-raising flour, baking powder and salt together.
Add All-Bran, uncooked oats and pecan nuts.
Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients.
Ladle in a large oven pan (330 x 280 mm), lined with foil or baking paper.
Bake for 25 minutes in an oven of 200°C. Reduce the heat to 180°C for another 25 minutes or more, until golden brown.
Cool slightly before turning the tin out and let it cool down.
Slice into slices and then cut into fingers. Place on a drying rack and dry in oven at 80°C until the rusks are dry, crunchy and brittle.
After they cooled down, place in an air tight container.
Dunk the rusks in a hot drink.

Vetkoek Recipe 

Fill it with a little curried ground beef and some cheddar cheese, or cheese and syrup.

It is basically deep-fried bread that is shaped like a bun.

Ingredients

6¾ cups Flour (all-purpose flour)
2 teaspoons Salt
2 tablespoons Sugar
1 packet Yeast
Lukewarm water
Cooking oil (for frying)

How To Make The Dough

• Mix sugar and yeast with some lukewarm water and leave to foam.
• Sift flour and salt.
• Pour yeast in flour and knead.
• Keep adding water and knead until you have a consistency like a bread dough.
• Leave the dough in the bowl and cover the bowl with a cloth. Leave the dough to rise for about 45 - 60 minutes until it is about double its original size.

How To Make The Vetkoek

      Pour the cooking oil into a frying pan to have about 1-1½ inches of oil in the pan. Heat the oil to about 375°F.

• Divide the dough into balls about the size of a tennis ball.
• Flatten the dough until it is about 1 inch thick and about the size of your palm.
• Place two or three pieces of the flattened dough at a time into the oil. Fry each side until golden brown.