Cracker Jack Popcorn Or Peanut Brittle - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 pt. clear Karo syrup
5 c. sugar
2 pinches salt
2 Tbsp. butter
1 tsp. soda (heaping)
hulless peanuts

Preparation

Cover saucepan with water.
Add Karo syrup, sugar and salt. Boil until slightly beige.
Add butter.
Keep stirring and cooking over medium heat until it browns to orange color.
(It will have a burned smell.)
Add soda.
Stir quickly and pour over dishpan of popcorn, or, pour over sheet pan with bottom covered with hulless peanuts for peanut brittle.