A rusk is a hard, dry

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or a twice-baked bread. It is sometimes used as a

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for babies. In some cultures, rusk is made of

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, rather than bread: this is sometimes referred to as cake rusk. In the UK, the name also refers to a wheat-based

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International variations

Argentina

In Argentina, rusk is called ''tostadas de mesa'' (literally "table toasts"), slices of twice-baked bread generally available in supermarkets in plain and sweetened variants. Cake rusk is called ''bay biscuit'', its ingredients are egg, sugar, oil, self-rising flour, and vanilla.

Azerbaijan

Rusk is called sukhary ( az, suxarı – a loanword from

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via

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) in Azerbaijani. It is usually made from stale bread and buns. In

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, some bakeries use their stale buns and bread for making rusks. The price of rusk in those bakeries is usually low, as the bakeries do this to avoid wasting the leftover bread and buns.

Bangladesh

It is commonly called "toast biscuit". Toast biscuits come in a variety of flavours, such as "ghee toast", "garlic toast", and "sugar toast", and are usually served with tea. Cake rusk is commonly known as "dry cake."

Britain

Butcher rusk is a dry biscuit broken into particles, sorted by particle size and sold to butchers and others for use as a

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manufacture. Though originally made from stale bread, now called "bread-rusk", a

yeast Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom. The first yeast originated hundreds of millions of years ago, and at least 1,500 species are currently recognized. They are estimated to constitut ...

-free variety called simply "rusk" is now more commonly used. Various rusk particle sizes are used in the food industry, where uses include: * A carrier for flavours, colours and seasonings * A binding agent in

hamburgers A hamburger, or simply burger, is a food consisting of fillings—usually a patty of ground meat, typically beef—placed inside a sliced bun or bread roll. Hamburgers are often served with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, bacon, or ...

sausages A sausage is a type of meat product usually made from ground meat—often pork, beef, or poultry—along with salt, spices and other flavourings. Other ingredients, such as grains or breadcrumbs may be included as fillers or extenders. W ...

, stuffings, pies, and other compound meat products * As an ingredient for dried

stuffing Stuffing, filling, or dressing is an edible mixture, often composed of herbs and a starch such as bread, used to fill a cavity in the preparation of another food item. Many foods may be stuffed, including poultry, seafood, and vegetables. A ...

mixes

Farley's Rusks

In the UK,

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Rusks are a dry

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biscuit dating from the 1880s, but manufactured by

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since 1994. They are usually given to infants, either soaked in milk and mashed up or in their original hard form as a teething aid.

Cuba

"Sponge rusk" is similar to

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but it is made out of twice-baked yellow cake batter. The yellow cake batter is baked into a flat, rectangular cake pan. After it is baked and cooled, it is sliced into strips and baked again or toasted to make cake toast. It is usually eaten with Cuban coffee (

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) or as an accompaniment to

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, or other dessert dishes.

Denmark

''Tvebak'' is derived from Dutch ''tweebak'' (literally "two bake"), an archaic synonym of ''beschuit''.

France

A ''biscotte'' is a French type of rusk. They are sold packaged in supermarkets.

Finland

A Finnish type of rusk is called '' korppu'', usually a dried piece of bun, flavoured with

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and

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. ''Korppu'' is a common coffee bread, normally eaten after having been dipped in

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. A sour version, called ''hapankorppu'', is a flat rusk made from rye flour and salt, and can be eaten like

crispbread Crispbread ( sv, knäckebröd (lit. crack bread), ''hårt bröd'' (hard bread), ''hårdbröd'', ''spisbröd'' (stove bread), ''knäcke'', da, knækbrød, no, knekkebrød, fi, näkkileipä or näkkäri, et, näkileib, is, hrökkbrauð, fo, k ...

Germany

''Zwieback'' (literally "twice baked") is a form of rusk in Germany. Like the Danish and French words, the name refers to being baked or cooked twice.

Greece

The term ''

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'' ( el, παξιμάδι) covers various forms of Greek rusk, commonly made from

barley Barley (''Hordeum vulgare''), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains, particularly in Eurasia as early as 10,000 years ago. Globally 70% of barley pr ...

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flour, and softened with wine, water, or oil before eating. ''Paximadi'' form the basis of the Cretan snack ''

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'' ( el, ντάκος).

India

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rusk (or toast biscuit) is a traditional dried bread or cake. It is also known as papay, rattan, ''khasta'' (

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: खस्ता), ''russ'' or "cake rusk" in

, Punjabi or "porai" பொறை in Tamil and

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''

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. It is usually eaten dipped in milk tea which softens the rusk. The sweet "cake rusk" version is made of cake whose ingredients include wheat flour, sugar, fat,

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, and, optionally, eggs.

Indonesia

Double baked bread in Indonesia is called "bagelen", believed to originate from Bagelen, a village in Central Java. Before the second bake, the bread is smeared with sugar and buttercream. It is usually eaten as a snack.

Iran

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, rusk is called ''nān-e sokhāri'' (

: نان سوخاری). It is made from wheat flour, sugar, skimmed milk powder, vegetable oil, gluten, malt extract, soy flour, salt, yeast, and water. It is eaten as a dunking biscuit, particularly with Persian chai (tea). The most common brand of ''naan sukhaari'' is Vitana.

Italy

In Italy, this form is called fette biscottate. It should not be confused with ''biscotti'' (twice-baked cookies or biscuits). Italians have cantucci, a double-baked almond rusk-like biscuit. What's more, while cantucci are just as firm and crunchy as the South African version, Italians insist that they are dipped and not dunked like rusks. The dipping, they maintain, is best done in cappuccino, dessert wine or grappa.

Japan

In Japan, rusk is often a delicacy made from baguette, cake or croissant. It is often sweet.

The Levant

In the

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this form is called ''boksum'' (

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: ) in

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and

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or ''qurshalla'' (Arabic:قرشلة) in

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and the occupied Palestinian territory. It is made from flour, eggs, oil or butter, sugar, yeast or baking powder, and sometimes a small amount of

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. It is topped with roasted

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seeds, black

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seeds, or anise, and eaten as a dunking biscuit, especially with herbal tea.

Netherlands and Belgium (Flanders)

''Beschuit'', also known as Dutch crispbakes, are light, round, rather crumbly, rusks as eaten in the

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and

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. When a baby is born in The Netherlands, it is customary to serve '' beschuit met muisjes'' (with "little mice", which are

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eds covered in a white and pink or blue sugar layer, depending on the newborn's gender). ''Beschuiten'' are also eaten as a breakfast food with a variety of toppings, most commonly butter and sprinkles in flavours such as

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(''chocoladehagel'' or ''chocoladevlokken'') or fruit (''vruchtenhagel''),

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or cheese. A longtime Dutch favourite is to serve

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on ''beschuit'', which is usually topped with some sugar or whipped cream. ''Beschuiten'' are made by first baking a flat round bread (''beschuitbol''), slicing it in half, and then baking each half again, usually at a lower heat. It is almost always sold in rolls; a roll typically has 13 rusks (a

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). Etymologically, ''

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'' (16th-century Italian), biscuit (19th century, from 16th-century ''bisket'') and ''beschuit'' come from the Latin phrase ''(panis)'' ''bis-coctus'', (bread, twice cooked).

Norway

In Norway, rusk is referred to as ''kavring'', and is similar to the Swedish ''skorpor''. Crushed kavring, called ''strøkavring'', is used, amongst other things, for making ''kjøttkaker'' and in the traditional dessert ''

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''. Kavring is also broken up and can be served with regular, soured or cultured milk.

Pakistan

In Pakistan, Rusk is colloquially known as ''Russ'' (

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''

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: پاپے) in Punjabi.

Philippines

The Philippine version of rusk is called ''

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''. Cake rusks are called '' mamon tostado''.

Portugal

The Portuguese version of rusk is called ''tosta''. "Tosta" are a hard coarse-textured slice of bread – it can be sweet, but most often it is savory – and it can be of various shapes and thicknesses. It is often ground up and used as

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Russia

The Russian version is called ''sukhar' '' (Cyrillic: сухарь) from "сухой" – "dry". They are either baked a second time from sweet

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-like bread, sliced in

fashion or made of leftover stale bread, cut into small cubes and air-dried or baked at a very low temperature. The first one is like a cookie, which can be served with milk,

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, tea, coffee or cacao. The second one is usually added to soup, clear or otherwise, softening up from absorbed liquids and accompanying it instead of bread. It became a tradition to avoid wasting leftover bread that always was a staple in Russian cuisine. There is much folklore about bread in the Russian language, paying respect to this grain food that is one of the cornerstones of Slavic nations' life and history. Rye bread rusks are the major ingredient in making of the Russian

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, a traditional fermented beverage.

South Africa

Definition

Rusks is the anglicized term for ''beskuit'' and is a traditional

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breakfast meal or snack. They have been

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in South Africa since the late 1690s as a way of preserving bread, especially when traveling long distances without refrigeration. Their use continued through the

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and the

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through to the modern day. Rusks are typically dunked in coffee or tea before being eaten.

Recipe

Rusks are essentially double-baked bread dough. Round balls of dough are closely packed in pans and baked like bread, after which long chunks are cut or broken off and slowly re-baked to a dry consistency. Several modern-day, mass-produced versions are available, the most famous brand being ''

Ouma Rusks Ouma (commonly referred to as Ouma Rusks) is a South African rusk made from a traditional buttermilk recipe. It was first produced in the rural town of Molteno, in the Eastern Cape, by Elizabeth Ann Greyvensteyn in 1939, in response to an initiat ...

''. Many bakeries, delis, and home industries sell commercial rusks, sometimes made from non-traditional ingredients, such as

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rather than sourdough. In addition to plain and

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flavours,

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wholewheat A whole grain is a grain of any cereal and pseudocereal that contains the endosperm, germ, and bran, in contrast to refined grains, which retain only the endosperm. As part of a general healthy diet, consumption of whole grains is associated ...

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, and lemon

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variations are also available.

Sweden

'' Skorpor'' (plural; singular skorpa) are a Swedish form of rusk. They are usually unflavoured or flavoured with

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, but can also be flavoured with herbs, dried fruit, nuts, or spices such as

. Swedish bakery company

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makes the world's most-sold rusk brand, Krisprolls. The traditional Swedish way to eat them is dipping them into a beverage such as

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juice Juice is a drink made from the extraction or Cold-pressed juice, pressing of the natural liquid contained in fruit and vegetables. It can also refer to liquids that are flavored with concentrate or other biological food sources, such as meat ...

. You can also put

butter Butter is a dairy product made from the fat and protein components of churned cream. It is a semi-solid emulsion at room temperature, consisting of approximately 80% butterfat. It is used at room temperature as a spread, melted as a condiment ...

and possibly

cheese Cheese is a dairy product produced in wide ranges of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. During production, ...

marmalade Marmalade is a fruit preserve made from the juice and peel of citrus fruits boiled with sugar and water. The well-known version is made from bitter orange. It is also made from lemons, limes, grapefruits, mandarins, sweet oranges, bergamo ...

on top and eat them on the side of a beverage or a fruit soup. Rusks are known in Sweden at least since the 16th century. Rusks were provisions in the military units and on ships. Back then they could also be crushed with a hammer and the crumbs ended up in svagdricka,

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and

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Turkey

In Turkish, rusk is called ''peksimet''. "Pek" stands for solid, tight, or durable in Turkish and "simet/simit" is an Arabic word �ميدmeaning bread, or flour. Another name is ''galeta'', a

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from

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United States

In the US, commonly available types of rusk include

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and

croutons A crouton is a piece of rebaked bread, often cubed and seasoned. Croutons are used to add texture and flavor to salads—notably the Caesar salad— or eaten as a snack food. Etymology The word crouton is derived from the French ''croûton' ...

, which are sold packaged in grocery stores, and

, which is found both at grocery stores and coffee shops.

References

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