Recipe - Grandmas Christmas Brittle

3 cup Sugar
One half cup Corn syrup
1 cup Water
One fourth cup Butter
cut into pieces
1 teaspoon Salt
16 ounce Dry roasted peanuts
unsalted
1 One half teaspoon Baking soda
1 teaspoon Water
1 teaspoon Vanilla

Grease two cookie sheets and keep warm in a 200 degree oven. In a large
saucepan, combine the sugar, corn syrup, and 1 cup water. Cook over medium
heat, stirring constantly, until a candy thermometer reaches 240 degrees
(softboil stage). Stir in butter, salt, and peanuts. Continue heating,
stirring constantly, until the mixture reaches 300 degrees. Meanwhile
combine baking soda, 1 teaspoon water and vanilla. Remove saucepan from
heat. Stir in baking soda mixture. Quickly pour half the mixture over each
cookie sheet. Spread with buttered metal spatula to a 1/4" thickness. Cool.
Break into pieces. Yield: About 2 One half pounds.

SOURCE: Karen Lou Grenzow, Sumas, WA, Country Woman, Nov/Dec 1992 SHARED
BY: Jim Bodle 12/92