Peanut Brittle ~ Foamheart

[foamheart]

LOL.. let me 'splain Lucy.

The word I used was, monosaccharides which is shown as misspelled. So I clicked auto-correct and it became saccharomyces, which BTW shows as misspelled also. No more auto-corrects for me....LOL So my auto correct made it even worse, and my lazy mind just accepted that the computer was not capable of mistakes in simple spelling corrections. I was referring to the major sugar divisions of sucrose and fructose, which are considered to be the simplest of sugars.

Just when you think you can trust them......... you get "Do you want to play a game?"

 

[nanuk]

I need to get a sugar thermometer, supplies, and a pot and try this.

I don't eat much candy, but my wife would LOVE this!
I NEED to try this!

Thanks for the 'splain'n'
Hopefully I can make it edible, and not Tooth breaking hard. (or in my case, tooth pulling sticky!)

 

[ab canuck]

That is a yummy desert foam, Thx for posting it. One of my favorites... Unfortunately I need to loose a few pounds before I go and make this one..... Definite like....

 

[foamheart]

I need to get a sugar thermometer, supplies, and a pot and try this.

I don't eat much candy, but my wife would LOVE this!
I NEED to try this!

Thanks for the 'splain'n'
Hopefully I can make it edible, and not Tooth breaking hard. (or in my case, tooth pulling sticky!)

Really all you need to start is a candy thermometer. Its to candy what a remote thermometer is to smoking. I was lucky enough to have a Mom that used both the old ways as well as the thermometer. I use the thermometer, but visual and olfactory senses also help from having seen the old ways from Mom and Aunts and Granny's.

If you buy one, don't get one of those really cheap round tubes with the paper chart inside. They break pretty easily and mercury is not good to eat. I bet they don't use mercury anymore, do they? LOL

 

[foamheart]

That is a yummy desert foam, Thx for posting it. One of my favorites... Unfortunately I need to loose a few pounds before I go and make this one..... Definite like....

You know when you heat the sugar to hard crack stage it cooks out all the calories. LOL I understand and there is Halloween just around the corner (CANDY!), then the holidays come on with pies cakes desserts and CANDIES! LOL Its also the butchering time as well as hunting season. Then its Mardi Gras King cakes, pralines and candies! You better get that diet on fast or you'll have to wait for Lent.

 

[HalfSmoked]

Grand-mom use to make a brittle that she put black walnuts in that was my favorite.

Warren

 

[tumaldi]

Too too easy to do. Pot must be shiny clean. Don't want any magic crystallization. I even after it is shiny clean, rub the inside with butter (even if I am using glass pots). While that butter is out go ahead and rub some lightly all over a 1/2 tray. Now we are all ready.

Looks like the dog threw up in this picture.......LOL Chunks!

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Recipe........
Ingredients:
1 cup light corn syrup
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup water
2 cups raw peanuts
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking soda

Directions:
Cook sugar, karo, and water till it spins a thread. Add nuts (pepper and salt) and continue cooking to amber stage. You'll actually hear some peanuts pop. You want to heat to hard break but not past it, don't get in a hurry. (Hard break is like 290 to 300 I think)
Add vanilla and soda, pour as thin as possible on greased cookie sheet.

NOTES ::
You really don't need the vanilla extract, instead I add a pinch of ground cayenne and a pinch of salt. Bazinga!
Use a large pot, its molten sugar and even a little bit will make you say bad words. ALSO when you add the baking soda, just beat it, beat it beat it, its gonna foam. Beat it till its quit foaming, then quickly pour it into the tray. Be carefull.
Personally, at this point I spin the tray. It moves the brittle out from the center making it a little thinner.
After it cools drop it hard and it will break.

All broken hearted.... I mean broken brittle.

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Make it light make it dark, be careful though too dark it gets a scorched taste. You can add vanilla, coconut, maple, any extra for a slightly different variation. That little cayenne makes your mouth wonder what is going on with it. And a pinch of salt always makes sugar better.

If you like brittle and this is easy eating not hard rock candy, try it.

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a good day.
I want to get into the world of cooking and I would like to start learning how to make desserts like some brownies. I have done some research about cookbooks and I found this book in this link https://inside7boxes.com/home-made-brownie/ Does anyone know about it? Any suggestions?

 

[foamheart]

If you want to tell about cooking, I highly suggest a starter cookbook, Betty Crocker, Better Homes and Gardens are probably IMHO the to oldest and most rounded starters. I got the Betty Crocker as a graduation present and thought someone was playing a joke. It's completely worn out. At Christmas a few years back we were all laughing about it. Seems all the graduating boys in the church got the cookbook. LOL Amyway my Mom said she learned from the Good Housekeeping. Pick one and most of your very basics will be there. Its the same way your Mom learned and her Mom. They'll be basic but they will also be good recipes because after so many generations they have got to me.

You can also use your puter. Look up the joy of baking, its a cook book series, but it will be mostly desserts.

You can also search sites like here in the dessert section. BTW Mrs. Bear does some pretty good stuff so look at Bear's lists.

I do recommend the Betty Crocker, I am partial to it cause its where I learned.

Also, I highly suggest that when you make something that tickles your fancy you find a way to save it. I used 3x5 recipe cards. There are 8x5's, full page, but find one place to keep 'em safe. I now use a software program called Cook'n. That what I can build my own cook book, add pictures and/or videos, and massage them as needed and I can still print them any size I want any time I want. Just a thought.

 

[nanuk]

You know when you heat the sugar to hard crack stage it cooks out all the calories. LOL I understand and there is Halloween just around the corner (CANDY!), then the holidays come on with pies cakes desserts and CANDIES! LOL Its also the butchering time as well as hunting season. Then its Mardi Gras King cakes, pralines and candies! You better get that diet on fast or you'll have to wait for Lent.

I also read a study by the Mayo(naise) clinic that if you eat a sugar product very fast, the effective calories are reduced, as the initial digestive juices (saliva) don't have time to convert the complex sugars into digestible simple sugars.

So I am going with that!