Buttery Peanut Brittle - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 c. granulated sugar
1/2 c. water
2 c. raw peanuts
1 c. white Karo corn syrup
1 c. butter or margarine
1 tsp. soda

Preparation

Combine soda, karo and water in a 3 quart saucepan.
Cook and stir until sugar dissolves.
When syrup boils, blend in butter. Stir often after mixture reaches syrup stage (230\u00b0).
Add nuts when temperature reaches soft crack (280\u00b0).
Stir constantly until temperature reaches hard crack (305\u00b0).
Remove from heat, quickly stir in soda.
Beat well.
Mixture will foam up.
Pour onto 2 or 3 buttered cookie sheets.
As candy cools, stretch it out thin by lifting and pulling, using 2 forks. when cool, break into pieces. Makes 2 1/2 pounds.