loved this as A kid can any one help?

Question

When I was little my grandma used to make homemade peanut brittle At Christmas I would like to share this with my kids can any one give me A good recipe.

Answer 1

BUTTERY PEANUT BRITTLE

2 cups sugar
1/2 cup water
1 cup white karo syrup
cook together till temp. is 240 deg
then add nuts, 1 lb
then cook until 300 degrees
butter your cookie pan
and have ready
this is very important, have ready:
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon vanilla
3 tablespoon butter
2 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Quickly add this and then have the 2 1/2 teaspoon of soda ready. Remove from heat, quickly add the soda, and pour onto the cookie sheet or pan. When adding your soda the mixture will fizz. Pour the mixture onto the greased pan and don't touch it or try to level the mixture with spoon. You need to stir the mixture all the time or the nuts will burn.
Hope you enjoy...

Answer 2

This is not as good as the recipe passed down from my family, but it runs a pretty close second!

Peanut Brittle
1 1/2 cups lightly salted, roasted peanuts
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
3 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups water
Vegetable oil, for coating the saucepan
Softened butter for spatula

In a small bowl combine peanuts, cinnamon, and cayenne. Set aside.
Brush the inside of a medium sized heavy saucepan with vegetable oil. Add the sugar and water to the saucepan, cook over high heat, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon, until it comes to a boil. Stop stirring, cover and cook for 3 minutes. Uncover, reduce heat to medium, and cook until the sugar is a light amber color. Stir in peanuts. This will greatly reduce the temperature of the sugar so work quickly. Once evenly mixed, pour mixture onto a sheet pan lined with a silicone baking mat or buttered parchment paper. Using a buttered spatula, spread thin. You will have to work quickly when pouring out and spreading the mixture in the pan. If necessary, in order to achieve single layer of peanuts, top with second sheet pan whose underside has been buttered. Cool completely and then break into pieces.

You can omit the spices and just make "regular" brittle.

Answer 3

Grandma's Christmas Brittle
3 cups sugar
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1 cup water
1/4 cup butter, cut into pieces
1 teaspoon salt
1 jar (16 ounces) unsalted dry roasted peanuts
1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Grease two baking sheets and keep warm in a 200° 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° (soft-ball stage). Stir in butter, salt and peanuts. Continue heating, stirring constantly, until the mixture reaches 300°.
Meanwhile, combine baking soda, 1 teaspoon water and vanilla. Remove saucepan from the heat. Stir in baking soda mixture. Quickly pour half the mixture over each baking sheet. Spread with a buttered metal spatula to a 1/4-in. thickness. Cool. Break into pieces. Yield: about 2-1/2 pounds.
http://recipes.tasteofhome.com/eRMS/recp.aspx?recid=2545

Answer 4

OLD-FASHIONED PEANUT BRITTLE
3 cups sugar
2 cups water
3/4 cup light corn syrup
3/4 cup dark corn syrup
4 cups coarsely chopped salted roasted peanuts
2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) unsalted butter
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Butter 2 heavy large baking sheets. Stir first 4 ingredients in heavy large saucepan over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Increase heat to high and boil without stirring until candy thermometer registers 260°F., about 40 minutes. Reduce heat to medium-low. Mix in peanuts and butter and cook until thermometer registers 295°F., stirring constantly, about 15 minutes. Add baking soda and vanilla and stir briskly (mixture will foam up). Immediately pour out onto prepared baking sheets, dividing evenly. Spread out brittle as thinly as possible. Let stand until cold and hard.

Break brittle into pieces. Store in airtight containers at room temperature. (Can be prepared 1 month ahead.)

Answer 5

Go to verybestbaking.com and search in swapped recipes peanut brittle. You will get tons of recipes and some of them have reviews written for them and are ranked from 1-5 stars. I look at the recipes that people have given a 4 or 5 stars to. If you click on a recipe you want to look at and if it is rated you can scroll down and read other viewers reviews on how they liked the recipe. Good luck!!

Answer 6

"Peanut Brittle" - 1 1/4 lbs.

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/2 cup water
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 cups shelled raw peanuts
2 tbsp. butter or margarine; softened
1 tsp. baking soda

1) Butter large cookie sheet. In heavy, 3-quart saucepan, combine sugar, corn syrup, water and salt. Over medium heat, heat to boiling, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Stir in peanuts. Set candy thermometer in place; continue cooking, stirring frequently, until temperature reaches 300*, or until a small amount of mixture dropped into very cold water separates into hard, brittle threads.
2) Remove from heat; immediately stir in butter and baking soda. Pour at once onto cookie sheet.
3) With 2 forks, lift and pull peanut mixture into 14x12" rectangle. Cool in pan on wire rack; with hands, break candy into small pieces.

Answer 7

Go to allrecipes.com
Below is a fraction of the recipes that come up when I searched.