Nancy’s Old-Fashioned Peanut Brittle

The candy called brittle has been a specialty in various areas of the South for well over a century, and while pecans, hazelnuts, and even almonds are often used to make brittles in the Deep South and Appalachia, by far the most popular types in Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia involve the region’s superior peanuts. (President Jimmy Carter always loved nothing more than his mother’s peanut brittle.) To this day, the best peanut brittle I’ve ever tasted was that made by