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    "Mom's Best Peanut Brittle"


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    Recipe Introduction


    Easy.

    List of Ingredients




    Ingredients
    1 cup white sugar
    1/2 cup light corn syrup
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    1/4 cup water
    1 cup peanuts
    2 tablespoons butter, softened
    1 teaspoon baking soda

    Recipe



    Directions
    Grease a large cookie sheet. Set aside.
    In a heavy 2 quart saucepan, over medium heat, bring to a boil sugar, corn syrup, salt, and water. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Stir in peanuts. Set candy thermometer in place, and continue cooking. Stir frequently until temperature reaches 300 degrees F (150 degrees C), or until a small amount of mixture dropped into very cold water separates into hard and brittle threads. The mixture will start to brown a bit (not burning).
    Remove from heat; immediately stir in butter or margarine and baking soda; pour at once onto cookie sheet. With 2 forks, lift and pull peanut mixture into rectangle about 14x12 inches; cool. (It has always just poured out and I'd smith a bit with a spoon). Snap candy into pieces.

 

 

 


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