Lenise's Peanut Brittle
From The Wiki Age
Ingredients
- 1.5 cup granulated white sugar
- 1 cup Karo light corn syrup
- 1 tbsp water
- 1 lb raw spanish peanuts (about 3 cups)
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1.5 tsp vanilla extract
Procedure
- Preheat a cookie sheet pan and the peanuts (in a separate pan) in the oven to 240ºF.
- Mix sugar, corn syrup, and water in a 3 qt sauce pan and start heating, watching temperature with a candy thermometer or a good digital probe
- When the syrup reaches 240ºF, add the peanuts and butter
- Keep heating the mixture, stirring to keep it from burning, till it reaches 293ºF
- Remove from heat
- Stir baking soda in - the mixture will foam up
- Stir in vanilla extract
- Spread evenly over the preheated cookie sheet and let cool on the counter till hard
- Once cool, break into pieces and store in airtight containers to keep fresh
Variations
Other nuts, mainly. Cashews, pistachios, and macadamias all make excellent brittle.
