Peanut Brittle

Ingredients

• 1 pint chopped roasted nuts
• 2 pounds granulated sugar

Method

1. 1

   Put sugar in a clean frying-pan.

2. 2

   Stir over slow fire.

3. 3

   It will lump, then gradually melt.

4. 4

   When pale coffee color and clear add nuts and pour quickly on buttered tin sheet.

5. 5

   Roll thin as possible.

6. 6

   When cold break up.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The royal baker and pastry cook (1902) by New York Cooking School, page 78. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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