Orange Brittle - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 large orange
1 c. sugar
1/2 c. light corn syrup
1/2 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. butter or margarine, softened
1 tsp. baking soda

Preparation

Grease large cookie sheet.
Grate peel from orange; set peel aside.
Squeeze 1/4 cup juice from orange.
In heavy 2-quart saucepan with candy thermometer in place over medium heat, heat orange juice, sugar, corn syrup and salt until boiling and sugar is dissolved, stirring occasionally.
Continue cooking, stirring frequently, until temperature reaches 300\u00b0 or hard-crack stage (when a small amount of mixture dropped into very cold water separates into hard and brittle threads).
Remove saucepan from heat; immediately stir in reserved orange peel, butter or margarine and baking soda.
Pour at once onto cookie sheet.
With 2 forks, lift and pull mixture into rectangle about 14 x 12-inches.
Cool. Can be considered low protein.