Best Peanut Brittle
- 12 cup light corn syrup
- 12 cup white sugar
- 12 cup brown sugar
- 14 cup water
- 14 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 12 cups peanuts
- 1 14 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Have all the ingredients for this recipe measured out and ready.
- Lightly butter a large cookie sheet place in a 200 degree oven till needed.
- In a 2 quart saucepan add sugar's, corn syrup, salt, and water bring to a boil over medium heat,
- Stir until sugar is dissolved.
- Insert candy thermometer.
- *NOTE FOR RAW PEANUTS:Add raw peanuts when candy sugar is dissolved and candy is boiling.
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- *NOTE FOR OTHER TYPE OF PEANUTS: If adding any other type of peanuts or nuts instead of RAW,do not add the salt.
- Add peanuts to pot when candy has reached 275 degrees F other wise your peanuts might burn.
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- Add peanuts stirring quite often.
- Continue boiling until temperature reaches 300 degrees F (Hard crack stage) on thermometer.
- * Now you have to work fast*.
- Remove from heat; quickly stir in baking soda, vanilla extract and margarine
- Pour quickly onto warm cookie sheet.
- Tilt pan back and forth until candy has spread out over pan.
- Cool candy.
- Then break candy into chunk pieces.
light corn syrup, white sugar, brown sugar, water, salt, butter, peanuts, baking soda, vanilla
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/best-peanut-brittle-194941 (may not work)