Peanut Brittle Recipe

Grandma started making Peanut Brittle when she was young because it was a favorite treat of her Dad's -- Henry Cobb Watkins.  This is her time-honored handwritten recipe.

Peanut Brittle Recipe

2 cups sugar
1 cup white syrup

1/2 cup water

2 cups raw peanuts

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp soda

Cook sugar, syrup and water until syrup spins a thread and when it streams from lifted spoon like a thread or hair.  Then add peanuts, cook until peanuts pop open.  Cook until mixture is a golden brown.  Remove from heat.  Add vanilla and soda and pour into a large buttered pan to cool.