"DIP A OUMA": Ouma Rusks - A South African Culinary Heritage
Elizabeth Ann Greyvenstein from the farm Friedenham, referred to as Ouma Nannie, hauled out a own family recipe for rusks, and went approximately baking a batch. She then sold them at the subsequent Church bazaar, and inside minutes, the delicious rusks have been snapped up with the aid of keen buyers, and this is when the orders commenced pouring in.
Soon after that, Ouma Nannie's rusks had been to be had on the diverse community social occasions and sporting occasions. Her Son cleverly noticed the possibility to test the demand for his Mom's delicacy, and went on a national road experience, taking the rusks with him and promoting them. He back with hundreds of orders, and went about turning the own family barn into a rusk manufacturing facility, equipping it with domestic-made rusk dryers and clay ovens
Nannie first sold her rusks beneath the emblem Uitspan, then Outspan. Eventually they became Ouma Rusks. Eventually they became Ouma Rusks. When the Greyvensteyns wished bigger premises, Ouma Nannie applied for a mortgage of R3 000 from the newly created Industrial Development Corporation. Her husband turned into properly-respected, and became mayor of Molteno for a record-breaking 21 years.
The barn at Friedenheim have become a manufacturing unit which lamentably burnt down in 1952. A new, higher one changed into constructed in its vicinity - probable an excellent aspect, because through then the little farm out of doors Molteno become something of a participant in the dry foods marketplace.
To at the present time, the legendary Ouma rusks are still being baked at Friedenham Farm. In winter it appears, the whole of South Africa wants to wrap its collective palms round a cup of espresso and dip an Ouma.
The business became the little metropolis's most acknowledged industry and employs the most workforce inside a 150km radius. Ouma Nannie kept her hand on the enterprise for many years, and unluckily exceeded away in 1989 at the ripe old age of 98 years.
Ouma rusks at the moment are still loved daily, in particular with that first morning cuppa. Key elements which offer Ouma Rusks their specific flavour, include wheat flour, orange and lemon peel, raisins, peanuts, oats, coconut, vanilla and honey. The product is available in shops throughout South Africa and is also determined on shelves in stores for South African expatriates overseas. South Africans around the arena yearn for and revel in the widely known Ouma Rusks.
Some 80 years later, the legend of Ouma Rusks lives on, each morning, with that first cup of coffee...
Ouma Rusks are legendary, in reality they've so much records that they've grow to be a part of South Africa's culinary heritage.
Soon after that, Ouma Nannie's rusks had been to be had on the diverse community social occasions and sporting occasions. Her Son cleverly noticed the possibility to test the demand for his Mom's delicacy, and went on a national road experience, taking the rusks with him and promoting them. He back with hundreds of orders, and went about turning the own family barn into a rusk manufacturing facility, equipping it with domestic-made rusk dryers and clay ovens
Nannie first sold her rusks beneath the emblem Uitspan, then Outspan. Eventually they became Ouma Rusks. Eventually they became Ouma Rusks. When the Greyvensteyns wished bigger premises, Ouma Nannie applied for a mortgage of R3 000 from the newly created Industrial Development Corporation. Her husband turned into properly-respected, and became mayor of Molteno for a record-breaking 21 years.
The barn at Friedenheim have become a manufacturing unit which lamentably burnt down in 1952. A new, higher one changed into constructed in its vicinity - probable an excellent aspect, because through then the little farm out of doors Molteno become something of a participant in the dry foods marketplace.
To at the present time, the legendary Ouma rusks are still being baked at Friedenham Farm. In winter it appears, the whole of South Africa wants to wrap its collective palms round a cup of espresso and dip an Ouma.
The business became the little metropolis's most acknowledged industry and employs the most workforce inside a 150km radius. Ouma Nannie kept her hand on the enterprise for many years, and unluckily exceeded away in 1989 at the ripe old age of 98 years.
Ouma rusks at the moment are still loved daily, in particular with that first morning cuppa. Key elements which offer Ouma Rusks their specific flavour, include wheat flour, orange and lemon peel, raisins, peanuts, oats, coconut, vanilla and honey. The product is available in shops throughout South Africa and is also determined on shelves in stores for South African expatriates overseas. South Africans around the arena yearn for and revel in the widely known Ouma Rusks.
Some 80 years later, the legend of Ouma Rusks lives on, each morning, with that first cup of coffee...
Ouma Rusks are legendary, in reality they've so much records that they've grow to be a part of South Africa's culinary heritage.
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