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Peanut Brittle #1

Submitted By "Sis" Bobby Gay Dodson Maness Story
Ingredients:

2 cups Karo syrup
1 cup sugar
1 cup water

Cook until it threads.

Add 2 cups raw peanuts and cook until the peanuts
begin to pop or smell done. Remove from heat. Add
1 tsp baking soda and pinch of salt. Spread on
greased pan very thinly.

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Peanut Brittle #2

Submitted By Dorothy Gatlin McWilliams
Ingredients:

1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup raw peanuts
½ cup white corn syrup
1 tsp butter
1 tsp baking soda

Combine peanuts, sugar and syrup in Pyrex dish.
Cover and cook 4 minutes in microwave oven. Take
out and mix well, then cook for 4 more minutes.
Take out and add butter and vanilla. Cook for 2
more minutes. Remove and add baking soda. Stir
until mixture turns brown; pour on buttered tray
and let cool.

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