Grandma's christmas brittle
30 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | cups | Sugar |
| ½ | cup | Light corn syrup |
| 1 | cup | Water |
| ¼ | cup | Butter -- cut into pieces |
| 1 | teaspoon | Salt |
| 1 | Jar peanuts, dry-roasted | |
| Unsalted -- 16 oz | ||
| 1½ | teaspoon | Baking soda |
| 1 | teaspoon | Water |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
Directions
Grease two cookie sheets and keep warm in a 200 deg. oven. In a large saucepan, combine the sugar, corn syrup and 1 cup water. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until a candy thermometer reaches 240 deg..(soft ball stage). Stir in butter, salt and peanuts.
Continue heating, stirring constantly, until the mixture reaches 300.
Meanwhile, combine baking soda, 1 teaspoon water and vanilla. remove saucepan from the heat. Stir in baking soda mixture. Quickly pour half the mixture over each cookie sheet. Spread with a buttered metal spatula to a ¼ in. thickness. Cool. Bread into pieces. Yield: about 2½ pounds.
Recipe By : Country Woman
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