rusk
/rʌsk
/noun chiefly British
1A light, dry biscuit or piece of twice-baked bread, especially one prepared for use as baby food.Consequently, the first foods to pass Oscar's lips (when they didn't stick to his face, hair and fingers) were not baby rice, rusks and gloop out of a jar....
- Wheat-based foods which contain gluten, for example, breakfast cereals, wheat flour or rusks.
- When she started weaning Cameron on to ‘mushy’ food such as wheat-based rusks, his health deteriorated further - and it wasn't just eczema any more.
1.1 [mass noun] Twice-baked bread used in foods such as sausages, and formerly as rations at sea.Sausages have traditionally been regarded as anathema to slimmers because they often include a lot of bread and rusk....
- If I were a perfectionist I'd say they are still a tad lean, so we added a bit more fat for the second batch, which used oatmeal for rusk instead of breadcrumbs, and included a load of sage and thyme from the garden.
- Similarly, those healthier lower-fat pork sausages are probably padded out with wheat rusk.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Spanish or Portuguese rosca 'twist, coil, roll of bread', of unknown ultimate origin.