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This recipe takes quite a lot of counter space.
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Start by taking four cookie sheets and buttering them.
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Around each cookie sheet, spread aluminum foil (need about 4 square feet around each cookie sheet).
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In a heavy bottomed sauce pan, add in the sugar, water, and corn syrup.
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Make sure not to get any on the sides of the pan.
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Heat on low till everything becomes liquid, then turn heat up to medium.
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Insert candy thermometer, and boil mix till it reaches 240 degrees F. Slowly, add in the peanuts.
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The mix shouldn't stop boiling.
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Continue heating till the mix reaches310 degrees F.
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Remove the pan from the stove.
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Toss in the cube of butter.
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Mix the soda, salt and vanilla, and pour them into the mix.
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Mix it all up using a wooden spoon.
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Pour the mix onto the 4 buttered cookie sheets.
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Get you fingers REAL buttery.
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As the peanut brittle cools along the edges, pull it out into thin strings.
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It usually takes two people to keep up with it.
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As soon as everything has cooled down, store the Peanut brittle in a sealed container.
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It is very hydrophillic and will stick together if you let it sit out.
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/CANDY
