Peanut Molasses Brittle

Preparation info
  • Yield: About

    1¾ Pounds

    .
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Craig Claiborne's Southern Cooking

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1987

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups sugar
  • ½ cup molasses
  • ½ cup

Method

  • Combine the sugar, molasses, and water in a saucepan and cook, stirring, until the sugar dissolves. Continue cooking over low heat until the temperature of 300 degrees is reached on a candy thermometer. Or test a few drops of syrup in cold water. It should be very brittle.
  • Remove the saucepan from the heat. Stir in the butter and beat in the baking soda. Add the p