My husband was walking through the kitchen last week and said "you know what would be good? Peanut Brittle." I said, "I bet I could make Peanut Brittle." So I looked up a recipe and the only thing I needed was peanuts. I bought some on my lunch break the next day for $1.67 and came home to make delicious peanut brittle. Here; watch!
I started with these fine ingredients:
I mixed the sugar, corn syrup, salt and water in a pot on the stove until the sugar was totally dissolved. It was thick and a swirly white color:
I added the peanuts, and the mixture quickly came to a boil as I was setting the thermometer in place:
It took around 20 minutes of frequent (once a minute or so) stirring to reach 300 degrees. I could see various changes taking place, the mixture became thicker with white bubbles around 200 degrees, the 230s were agonizingly slow, by 250-260 the bubbles looked like caramelized sugar:
250 to 300 went very quickly, and I added the remaining ingredients:
I immediately transferred the mixture to my prepared well-greased pan:
As the recipe suggested, I used two forks to spread the mixture out to fill the pan. In retrospect, I wish I had used a spatula, I think it would have worked better.
I let it cool for an hour before I started cracking it apart:
And then it was delicious and amazing:
Woohoo!!
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