craig bertok
Membership Revoked
*****************
chocolate peanut brittle
________________-
Make regular caramels in a heavy pan with the below. Boil the stuff hard until it reaches
the stage where a spoonful dropped in a glass of Cold Water makes a hard piece of candy.
Put a long aluminum foil on the counter, and butter the heck out of it. Cover it with peanuts/and/or/
sunflower seeds, and/or sesame seeds..........cashews, hazelnuts, walnuts...wowwwwww..
Candy needs constant stirring . At high heat--about halfway on my stove dial, the boiling is about right. Use a long wooden spoon. And the pan cleans up easy by soaking in water.
( The longer you boil the candy part, the harder it is when it hardens. You can go partway and
have soft caramels. EATING HARD CANDY like peanut brittle can be dangerous. Breaks teeth and stuff.)
I use 500 ml. bottles of white corn syrup., And adjust everything to that. It makes about 3 sq. feet of peanut brittle.
* 2 measures of sugar
* 1 measure of white corn syrup.
* about half or 3/4 of a measure of heavy cream. or more. The more you add, the longer it needs cooking.
* chocolate.....my favorite. I add about like 1/2 cup of cocoa powder. (or more)
* .........( but I would try vanilla or orange or something.too )
* salted roasted nuts is best.
add the cream slowly ...then keep boiling until it turns thick. The 'cold-water test' is paramount to success.-----
....but then none of this crap is really good for a person......but.
chocolate peanut brittle
________________-
Make regular caramels in a heavy pan with the below. Boil the stuff hard until it reaches
the stage where a spoonful dropped in a glass of Cold Water makes a hard piece of candy.
Put a long aluminum foil on the counter, and butter the heck out of it. Cover it with peanuts/and/or/
sunflower seeds, and/or sesame seeds..........cashews, hazelnuts, walnuts...wowwwwww..
Candy needs constant stirring . At high heat--about halfway on my stove dial, the boiling is about right. Use a long wooden spoon. And the pan cleans up easy by soaking in water.
( The longer you boil the candy part, the harder it is when it hardens. You can go partway and
have soft caramels. EATING HARD CANDY like peanut brittle can be dangerous. Breaks teeth and stuff.)
I use 500 ml. bottles of white corn syrup., And adjust everything to that. It makes about 3 sq. feet of peanut brittle.
* 2 measures of sugar
* 1 measure of white corn syrup.
* about half or 3/4 of a measure of heavy cream. or more. The more you add, the longer it needs cooking.
* chocolate.....my favorite. I add about like 1/2 cup of cocoa powder. (or more)
* .........( but I would try vanilla or orange or something.too )
* salted roasted nuts is best.
add the cream slowly ...then keep boiling until it turns thick. The 'cold-water test' is paramount to success.-----
....but then none of this crap is really good for a person......but.