What precisely is RUSK?

Question

It's a common ingredient in cheap sausages.
My dictionary only defines it as "an ingredient in sausages" so that's no help!

Answer 1

Rusk is wheat flour and water, mixed to a paste, cooked, then ground to a powder. Its a kind of biscuit but not something you would like to eat Only buy sausages if they are less than 15 to 25% rusk. You do need some kind of filler, otherwise the fat would be lost and, you do really need fat in any meat because, sad to say fat is the ingredient that gives meat its flavour.

Having read the answers you have received, rusk can mean anything, but in English sausage making, it means what I have stated (gosh I sound like a prig).

Answer 2

A rusk is a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit or twice-baked bread.

The former definition is used in South Africa, where it is considered a traditional food (called beskuit in Afrikaans) and is eaten after having been dipped in coffee or (less often) tea. Historically, it was baked at home, but there are now several mass-market versions available, the most famous probably being Ouma Rusks. In addition to the traditional "plain" and buttermilk flavours, there are now numerous other flavours available, such as condensed milk, muesli, and lemon poppyseed.

ZwiebackThe term also refers to a slice of bread baked again until it is hard and crisp (also called a zwieback).

The word beschuit (which, like Zwieback, means the same as "biscuit," namely baked twice) refers to the light and round rusks savoured in the Netherlands. It is customary to serve beschuit met muisjes at the birth of a baby.

In Finland, rusks called korppu are topped with cinnamon and sugar and traditionally dipped in coffee. Finnish immigrants brought korppus to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where they are also known as Trenary Toast (after a bakery in Trenary, Michigan that produces them).

Answer 3

It's a sweet Russian biscuit. In the UK people give them to babies.

Answer 4

baby biscuit