Home
What's New
FOR YOU Your Page
Great Recipes
Lost Recipes
Recipe Ezine
Recipe Ebooks
Gifts & Supplies
EVERYDAY Cakes
Cookies
Pies
Puddings
Ice Cream
Candy
Soft Drinks
Best Desserts
HOLIDAYS St Valentine's
St Patrick's Day
Easter
Thanksgiving
Halloween
Christmas
INTERNATIONAL French
German
Italian
Other Countries
HISTORIC Renaissance
19th Century
HELP Cooking Tips
Household Tips
Recipe Search
SITE INFO About Us
Contact Us
Site Policies
Share This Site

XML RSSSubscribe To This Site

XML RSS
Add to Google
Add to My Yahoo!
Add to My MSN
Subscribe with Bloglines

 

Peanut Brittle Recipes

Grandma's Recipe For Peanut Brittle Makes The Best Peanut Brittle Candy


Grandma's homemade peanut brittle recipes make the most scrumptiously chewy peanut brittle candy imaginable. If you like the taste of peanuts and toffee, then you will love peanut brittle!

Years ago, our neighbor Mr. Watkins made awesome peanut brittle candy, and I always looked forward to sampling it at Christmas. Though I was very young at the time, I can recall loving it because he didn't skimp on the peanuts. When people ask how to make peanut brittle, I always suggest throwing in a few more peanuts than the recipe calls for. If you love peanuts, keep this in mind.

Making peanut brittle candy like your great-grandparents once enjoyed is easy with the help of these homemade peanut brittle recipes.

Brief History Of Peanut Brittle

Brittle-type candies containing seeds and nutmeats are an ancient confection that has been made in many countries for centuries. However, peanut brittle as we know it today likely evolved in the United States as peanuts (a legume) became popular during the time of the Civil War.

By the late 1860s, recipes for peanut candy and boiled molasses candy with peanuts began to appear in cookbooks. The candy name "peanut brittle," however, didn't come into common use until around 1900.




Classic Candy Recipes ebook ad


Homemade Peanut Brittle Recipes

These old-time peanut brittle recipes are taken from Mom's old recipe scrapbook, circa 1929. They were family favorites for making peanut brittle.

Recipe For Peanut Brittle

One cup brown sugar, 3/4 cup peanuts. Put shelled peanuts, chopped if desired, in a buttered pan to set in a warm place. Melt sugar, stirring constantly and with considerable pressure. I find an old-fashioned iron frying pan is best for this.

When the sugar is a golden-brown liquid stir in hot peanuts very quickly. Pour into greased pan and spread thin by tilting pan. When cold, break into desired-sized pieces.

Recipe For Peanut Brittle

One cup granulated sugar, one-quarter cup chopped peanuts. Heat sugar until it is melted, stirring constantly. Add chopped nuts and pour quickly on greased pan. Mark into squares when slightly cooled. Three-quarters cup peanuts in shell equal one-quarter cup meats.

Semisweet Chocolate Peanut Brittle

Combine and bring to boil 2 cups sugar, 1 cup light corn syrup, 1/2 cup water, 1 teaspoon salt; cover and boil 2 minutes; uncover and cook without stirring to 300°F hard crack stage; remove from heat; stir in quickly 6 ounces or 1 cup semisweet chocolate pieces, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 cup salted nuts, coarsely chopped; spread thinly on greased sheet.

Molasses Peanut Brittle Recipe

This traditional recipe for peanut brittle is taken from Grandma's old handwritten recipe book, circa 1912.

Grandma used this easy molasses peanut candy recipe to make treats for her children when they lived on the Alberta prairie in the late 1890s. You will love its rich, buttery taste.


1-1/2 cups molasses, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon vinegar. Boil until brittle when tried in water. Then add butter half size of an egg and 1 quart peanuts chopped quite fine. Spread in hot buttered pans. When cold, break up in small pieces.

Almond Brittle Recipe

This extremely simple almond brittle recipe is taken from the book "Lee's Priceless Recipes" compiled by Dr. N. T. Oliver, published by Laird & Lee, Chicago, circa 1895.

You will love the taste of almond brittle, but when you come to think of it, why not try it with cashews or pistachios too?


Same as Peanut Brittle, only add the almond nuts in time to allow them to roast a little in the boiling sugar.




Grandma McIlmoyle icon

Grandma Recommends...




Click On Links For Product Descriptions And Customer Reviews

Handpicked For Quality and Value

shadow



peanut brittle recipes cookbook and rose If you have never tasted authentic peanut brittle candy, then you are in for a big treat. Of all the old-fashioned candies, it is one of the easiest to make and the most delicious.

Choose one of these homemade peanut brittle recipes and indulge yourself with some old-time candy.




TOP of Peanut Brittle Recipes
RETURN to Candy Recipes
HOME to Dessert Recipes


footer for peanut brittle recipes page