The Buttermilk rusks fiasco

My boyfriend love’s buttermilk rusks! So two weeks ago I decided that he deserved a nice treat. After getting his mother’s recipe for buttermilk rusks, I head to the shops to get all the ingredient that I would need.

It was as if something was out to get me that day. To make buttermilk rusks you need 4 eggs. The seconded egg I broke an added to the milk mixer was rotten. The smell that came out of the rotten egg was nauseating. This al meant that I had to start all over again. I was not impressed with myself, every baker knows that when you use eggs you first break it in to a bowl and then you added it to your baking mixer.

The seconded bump in the road was that the rusk’s had burned at the bottom. This was due to the fact that the oven I used is one of those mini ones that look like a microwave oven. So I had to cut the bottom bit of the rusks before I could cut the rusks into bit size piece.

The oven is so small that I had to dry the rusk’s out in two batches. The first batch I dried out over night in a 90⁰C and a open oven door. It dried out perfectly. With the seconded batch I was not so lucky. After putting it in the oven at 90⁰C and leaving the door open.

My boyfriend thought that the oven was to low so he turned the oven up to 200⁰C and closed the door. I don’t have to tell you what happened next. Needless to say I won’t be baking rusks any time soon again. Too much went wrong the first time.

This is how the oven looks like that I used to bake the rusks: