Ouma Buttermilk Rusks 500 g

Ok I probably don't but here it goes anyway: Squares of heaven. The delicate Buttermilk flavour that when dunked in tea is just sublime, no soggy digestive breaking off in your tea. With these you can dunk with the certainty that your rusk will be in one piece when you go for a bite. The perfect treat for elevenses. Bit of History: The Ouma legend lives on. The story of Ouma rusks started more than sixty years ago in the small North Eastern Cape town of Molteno. The great depression spurred Ouma Greyvensteyn and her friends to put their heads together to find ways of helping their church mission. Each woman invested half a crown and set out to grow their investment. Ouma Greyventeyn used her half a crown to bake a batch of rusks, using her trusted family recipe and selling them to farming families in the community. Orders soon started pouring in. Today, Ouma Greyvensteyn is still South Africa's most famous baker. The Ouma bakery is still baking rusks on the farm Friedenheim, on the outskirts of Molteno. No less than 100 full time staff work around the clock in shifts, ensuring that South Africans will always be able to "Dip 'n Ouma".

I lived in South Africa for many years. It was simple amazing to get the gorgeous taste of these rusks once again. (Or biscuit, as it was called over in SA). Lovely memories! Fresh and very tasty.

Tasty rusk. Even the kids loved them.

This is a regular buy and the rusks are very good. On this occasion, the box of tusks was damaged. Squashed almost flat. Battered. Amazon is kindly replacing.

Great dunked in tea or coffee. A nice snack with midmorning ☕ coffee

Unremarkable. A bit disappointing

Delicious and moreish as always.

Yes, they are hard, but they are supposed to be, as they are rusks! So all the people complaining that these biscuits are hard should read the description and look into what they're buying, if they've never had it before. The Ouma slogan isn't 'Dip 'n Ouma' for nothing! They are designed for dipping into tea / coffee, which is when they soften. If you dunk them for too long, they'll turn into mush and disintegrate in your drink (but they're still yummie, spooned out. :-)) I have been buying these for years and they are delicious. I love dipping them into my morning coffee, they go just soft enough for me to bite them in half and dip them again. I only allocate myself two each morning, as I could eat the whole box, although my son munches on them as they are, when he snuggles into bed next to me, while I read in bed and have my coffee.