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Recipe: Perfect Old Fashioned Peanut Brittle

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Old Fashioned Peanut Brittle. Heat to boiling and add peanuts. Cook until peanuts become golden in color and syrup mixture beads off nuts when raised out of pan. This old-fashioned peanut brittle recipe is as easy to make as it is delicious.

Old Fashioned Peanut Brittle In a large saucepan over high heat, bring sugar, corn syrup, water, and salt to a boil. Old-Fashioned Homemade Peanut Brittle is a crispy, crunchy homemade candy loaded with roasted peanuts in a buttery, sweet candy coating. It's the best peanut brittle EVER and perfect for homemade gift-giving. You can make Old Fashioned Peanut Brittle using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you make that.

Ingredients of Old Fashioned Peanut Brittle

  1. Prepare 1 cup of granulated sugar.
  2. You need 1/2 cup of light Karo syrup.
  3. It’s 1/2 cup of hot water.
  4. You need 1 cup of raw Spanish peanuts.
  5. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
  6. Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
  7. It’s 1 of butter.

Old Fashioned Peanut Brittle has everything that you need in a good Holiday Candy. Bonus, it makes the house smells like a Caramel heaven. I love this time of the year when I am trying out classic recipes to enjoy with family and friends. Prepare a large baking sheet pan with parchment paper.

Old Fashioned Peanut Brittle instructions

  1. Butter a medium pizza pan. Set on a thick towel or a couple of pot holders on a heat resistant surface..
  2. In a medium sized heavy bottom metal saucepan, combine sugar, Karo syrup, and water..
  3. Bring to boil. Cook, stirring occasionally, to hard ball stage..
  4. Add peanuts. Cook until peanuts begin to pop..
  5. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla extract..
  6. Stir in baking soda. Let rise until it quits and stir it down. Let rise again and pour evenly onto prepared pizza pan..
  7. Let cool COMPLETELY before breaking into large pieces. Store tightly covered in a cool dry place..
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Or as my grandmother would do, generously butter a clean section of countertop. You can also butter the sheet pan. In a large heavy-bottomed saucepan combine the sugar, corn syrup, water, and salt. Old-Fashioned Peanut Brittle recipe made by my dad every holiday. This can be made one month ahead of time.

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