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Brittle: Walnut Honey Brittle

Source of Recipe

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List of Ingredients

1 cup butter
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 1/2 cups walnuts, chopped and tosted
1 cup butterscotch morsels (6 oz)
2 tablespoons butter


Recipe

Combine one cup butter, honey and bown sugar in a saucepan: bring to a boil, stirring and then add 3/4 cup of the chopped nuts; Continue cooking; stirring freuently, to 300ºF on a candy thermometer. This will be the haard-crack stage. Pour candy into a well buttered 8-inch cake pan. Cool. Melt butterscotch pieces with remaining buter over hot, not boiling water water and while candy is still warm, spread half of the butterscotch mixture and sprinkle with remaining nuts. When candy is cold, turn out of cake pan and spread bottom of candy with the remaining butterscotch mixture and sprinkle with remaing nuts. When ready to eat, break into small irregular peices.

NOTES : Note: At out house we often change the type of nuts as well as use chocolate chips. bottom can be left bare as well.