Peanut Brittle by Peg Pennell

Submitted by rtst3lep on January 8, 2016 - 8:49am

Summary

Yield
SourceThis was the peanut brittle my mom always made at Christmas.
Prep Time20 minutes
CategoryCandy
CuisineAmerican

Description

Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/3 cup white syrup
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1 cup Spanish peanuts
  • 1 tsp soda (scant)
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

Boil sugar, syrup, salt and water until it threads.  Add peanuts and cook until slightly brown.  Take off stove and immediately stir in vanilla, soda and quickly pour into a buttered shallow pan.  

Mom used a jellyroll pan and spread it out as far as she could and then let it cool completely.  Then she broke it into pieces.   

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