mom's best peanut brittle

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup light corn syrup
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 cup peanuts
• 2 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon baking soda

Recipe

Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 15 mins Ready Time: 55 mins


• grease a large cookie sheet. set aside.
• in a heavy 2 quart saucepan, over medium heat, bring to a boil sugar, corn syrup, salt, and water. stir until sugar is dissolved. stir in peanuts. set candy thermometer in place, and continue cooking. 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.
• remove from heat; immediately stir in butter and baking soda; pour at once cookie sheet. with 2 forks, lift and pull peanut mixture into rectangle about 14x12 inches; cool. snap candy into pieces.