How to Make Peanut Brittle
Homemade and Microwave Varieties
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Microwave Peanut Brittle
How to make Microwave Peanut Brittle. How easy can it get making this traditional Holiday candy.1 cup peanuts
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup
white corn syrup
1 tsp butter
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp salt
Stir peanuts, sugar, salt, add syrup in 1 1/2 quart glass
bowl. Microwave on high 7 to 8 minutes, stir well after 4 minutes. At end of 8
minutes, add butter and vanilla. Blend well. Return to microwave and cook on High
1 or 2 minutes more. Remove from oven and add baking soda. Stir till light and
foamy. Pour immediately on a buttered cookie sheet. Cool 30 to 60 minutes. Break
into pieces and store in airtight container.
Microwave Peanut Brittle Recipe
Cook 4 minutes:
1 cup raw peanuts
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup white syrup
Add and cook 4 more minutes:
1 Tablsp. butter
1 tsp. vanilla
Add 1 tsp. soda. Pour on greased cookie sheet and let cool, and break into pieces. See this recipe for microwave peanut brittle
Peanut Brittle
Put 2 cups granulated sugar
into a heavy pan and melt, stirring constantly to prevent burning. Scatter a cup
of shelled and skinned peanuts on a greased pan and pour the syrup over them.
When hard, break into pieces.
Recipe circa 1919
Peanut Brittle
2 c. raw peanuts
1/2
c. white syrup
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. white sugar
1 inch paraffin, cut thin
1
tsp. soda
Add raw peanuts in beginning. Cook 15 minutes or until tanish
brown. Add 1 tsp. soda and stir. Pour into greased warm pan.
Here's another recipe for peanut brittle.
Also check out this recipe for peanut brittle.
Here's a recipe called Buttery Peanut Brittle
Old Fashioned Nut Brittle
More homemade candy recipes from my 1950's cookbook.
2 cups nuts
2
cups sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
Heat the sugar gradually in a frying pan. Stir constantly with the bowl of the spoon til a golden syrupis formed. Remove from the fire and quickly stir in the soda, salt, and vanilla. Pour the syrup over a layer of nuts in an greased pan. When cold crack into small pieces.
Maple Nut Brittle
2 cups nuts,
broken in pieces
1 1/2 cup maple sugar, cut in pieces
1 1/2 cups light corn
syrup
3/4 cup water
2 Tablespoons butter or fat
1/4 teaspoon salt
Brown nuts in the oven. Cook sugar, syrup, salt and water together in a saucepan, stirring until the sugar is dissolved. Add butter or fat. Continue cooking without stirring until the temperature is 290 F. or until syrup becomes brittle when tested in cold water. add nuts and pour on an inverted greased pan in a very thin sheet. Do not scrape the sides and bottom of saucepan. Break into pieces.
Coconut BrittleSubstitute shredded coconut for nuts in the recipe for Maple Nut Brittle.
______________________________________Other recipes for a "brittle-like" candy!
Quick Almond Crunch
In a heavy skillet, melt 1 cup butter; stir in 1 cup sugar. Add 1 1/2 cups slivered blanched Almonds, stir constantly over medium heat till mixture is golden brown (about 15 minutes)
Pour into a jelly roll pan, spreading thinly. Immediately sprinkle with 1/2 cup to 1 cup semisweet chocolate pieces; spread evenly to glaze. Chill.
When chocolate is set, crack candy
into pieces. Store in covered container in the refrigerator.
Recipe from a 1963 cookbook
Glazed Almonds
Here's a recipe for Glazed Almonds
Almond Butter Crunch
Here's a recipe for Almond Butter Crunch
Coffee Walnuts
Here's a recipe for Coffee Walnuts.
Cashew Crunch
2 sticks butter or oleo
2 T.
water
1 c. sugar
3/4 c. cashews
Boil 7 minutes, then put on buttered cookie sheet and let cool. Break into pieces. Makes about 1 pound.
Maple Sugar
Candy
1 lb. soft maple sugar
1/4 cup boiling
water
3/4 cup thin cream
2/3 cup English walnut or pecan meat, cut in
pieces
Break sugar in pieces; put into a saucepan with cream and water.
Bring to boiling-point, and boil until a soft ball is formed when tried in cold
water. Remove from fire, beat until creamy, add nut meat, and pour into a buttered
tin. Cool slightly, and mark in squares.
Recipe from Fannie Farmer cookbook
English Toffee
1/2
lb. butter
1 cup white sugar
1 Tbsp. water
1/4 cup chopped nuts, warmed
chocolate
bar shaved or semisweet chips
Measure all ingredients and set aside.
Line cookie sheet with foil. Over medium heat melt butter and add sugar very slowly,
stirring constantly until sugar turns tan. Add nuts and turn mixture onto the
lined cookie sheet. (The lighter the color of mixture, the softer the candy will
be) While candy is hot spread chocolate over the top. When solid enough to handle,
turn slab over and coat other side with chocolate while still warm. Cool. Break
into pieces.
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