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Mom's Best Peanut Brittle

Mom's Best Peanut Brittle Ingredients: sugars, granulated syrups, corn, light salt, table water, bottled, generic oil, corn, peanut, and olive butter, without salt leavening agents, baking soda Directions: Grease a la...

Mom's Best Peanut Brittle

Ingredients:
sugars, granulated
syrups, corn, light
salt, table
water, bottled, generic
oil, corn, peanut, and olive
butter, without salt
leavening agents, baking soda

Directions:
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 onto cookie sheet.
With 2 forks, lift and pull peanut mixture into rectangle about 14x12 inches; cool.
Snap candy into pieces.