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Peanut Brittle

candy
From:
Nina Roberts / Maize Roberts
Ingredients
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1 1/2 cup corn syrup
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 3/4 cup raw Spanish peanuts (1 lb.)
  • 1/2 tsp salt (omit if using salted nuts)
  • 1 tsp soda
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 TBSP butter
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Steps
  1. Measure all ingredients before starting.
  2. Combine salt, vanilla, and soda; set aside.
  3. Put sugar, syrup, and water in 3 quart kettle and stir until dissolved. Bring to boil and wash down sides of kettle with wet rag around fork.
  4. At 240°, add peanuts and butter. Stir so peanuts will not burn - turn heat down and cook candy to 320°.
  5. Remove from heat. Add salt/vanilla/soda mixture. It will bubble up, but stir well and then spread as thin as possible on 2 buttered cookie sheets.
  6. You need to work fast as it sets up rapidly.
  7. Cool; then tap with dinner knife to break into pieces. Put into candy dishes.
  8. This candy keeps very well.
Tips
I don't wash down the sides of the kettle and can't see the difference.