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Mom's Peanut Brittle
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup water
1 cup shelled raw peanuts
2 tbsp butter or margarine, softened
1 tsp baking soda
HINT: Have all the ingredients for this recipe measured out and ready.
This recipe requires that react quickly and you do not have time to be measuring
in between.
Grease large cookie sheet. In a heavy 2 quart saucepan over medium
heat, heat to boiling sugar, corn syrup, salt and water, stirring until sugar is dissolved.
Stir in peanuts. Set candy thermometer in place and continue cooking, stirring
frequently, until temperature reaches 300 ° F or until a small amount of mixture dropped into very cold water separates into hard and brittle
threads.
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 14" by
12"; cool. With hands, snap candy into small pieces.
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