Recipes · Desserts · American

Peanut Brittle

  • Family Recipe

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Mix sugar, syrup, and water together in heavy pan.
  2. Cook until it forms a hard ball in water. Stir occasionally.
  3. Add butter and raw peanuts and let cook until syrup turns a golden brown like peanut brittle (about 10 minutes), stir occasionally.
  4. Remove from heat and add vanilla and soda. Stir until it foams (forms?) well, do not overstir.
  5. Pour onto well buttered cookie sheet.
  6. Do not spread with spoon, tip cookie sheet to spread.
  7. Let harden and break into pieces.