Renaté's mom's neighbour's buttermilk rusks

Our good friend Renaté orginally gave us this, but Sonja messed a bit with it & added the sunflower seeds & coconut. Natural yoghurt can be used instead of buttermilk. The recipe produces 3 small bread tins of dough.

Ingredients

• 1kg Self-raising flour
• 250ml Sugar
• 10ml Baking powder
• 10ml Salt
• 250g Butter
• 875ml Bran
• 500ml Buttermilk
• 125 ml Sunflower oil
• 3 Eggs
• 75ml Coconut (optional)
• 75ml Sunflower seeds (optional)

Method

1. Mix selfraising flour, sugar, baking powder & salt.
2. Mix in butter.
3. Add the bran & mix thoroughly.
4. Beat buttermilk & eggs together.
5. Add that with the oil to the flour mixture & mix thoroughly.
6. Place dough in greased bread tins and bake at 180°C (350°F) for 50 minutes.
7. Let it cool down, cut into desired size & dry out in oven.