Best Peanut Brittle
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INGREDIENTS:
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup light corn
syrup
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup water
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1 cup peanuts
2 tablespoons
butter, softened
1 teaspoon baking
soda
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DIRECTIONS:
1.
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Grease a large
cookie sheet. Set aside.
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2.
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In a heavy 2
quart saucepan, over medium heat, bring to a boil sugar, corn syrup, salt,
and water. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Set candy thermometer in place, and
continue cooking. Stir in peanuts at 250 degrees. 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.
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3.
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Remove from
heat; immediately stir in butter and baking soda; pour at once onto cookie
sheet. With 2 forks, lift and pull peanut mixture into rectangle about 14x12
inches; cool. Snap candy into pieces.
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