Servings

lots of Servings

Prep time

5-10 Minutes

Cooking Time

60 Minutes

Calories

--- Kcal

Recipe from Grandma Laura Lou

Ingredients

  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1 ½ cups light corn syrup
  • 1 ⅓ cups water
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 8oz spanish peanuts 1
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 1 tbsp baking soda

Directions

  1. Grease two sheet pans, or line with silpat mats
  2. Combine sugar, syrup and water in large saucepan
  3. Bring to a boil for about a half hour, stirring constantly, until your candy thermometer hits 235℉"
  4. Add salt and peanuts all at once
  5. Continue to cook and still until mixture reaches hard crack stage (310 degrees)
  6. Remove from heat
  7. Stir in butter, then baking soda
    1. Make sure your pan is large enough as the mixture will fluff up quite a bit
  8. Stir rapidly until mixture turn a light brown color and begins to thicken
  9. Pour onto buttered pans and spread thin, working very fast as it tends set very quickly
  10. Let set for a few hours
  11. Break into pieces when cool

Notes


  1. If you use a different nut other than raw spanish peanuts, don’t add them to the candy until around 275-280 degrees, otherwise they will most likely burn. No need to grease pans, use a flat pan with a silpat in it if you have it, you get less oily candy afterward. This does require two pans, otherwise it will be way too thick. If you only have one sheet pan, cut the recipe in half. ↩︎