Recipes

Buttery Cashew Brittle

2 cups sugar
1 cup light-colored corn syrup
1/2 cup water
1 cup butter
3 cups (about 12 ounces) raw
cashews, coarsely chopped
1 teaspoon baking soda, sifted

Directions
1.  Combine sugar, corn syrup, and
water in a 3-quart saucepan.  Cook
and stir until sugar dissolves.  Bring
mixture to boiling; add butter and stir
until butter is melted.  Clip a candy
thermometer to side of pan.  Reduce
heat to medium-low; continue boiling at
a moderated, steady rate, stirring
occasionally, until thermometer
registers 280 degree F,  the soft-crack
stage (about 35 minutes).

2.  Stir in cashews; continue cooking
over medium-low heat, stirring
frequently until thermometer registers
300 degree F, the hard-crack stage
(10 to 15 minutes more).

3.  Remove pan from heat; remove
thermometer.  Quickly stir in the baking
soda, mixing thoroughly.  Pour mixture
onto 2 buttered baking sheets or 2
buttered 15 x 10 x 1-inch pans.

4.  As the cashew brittle cools, stretch
it out by lifting and pulling with 2 forks
from the edges.  Loosen from pans as
soon as possible; pick up sections and
break them into bite-size pieces.  Store
tightly covered.  Makes 2 1/2 pounds.  
(72 servings).
Each recipe added to this collection will be one that my family has
personally tried and loved.  
This brittle was easy to fix and tastes
so very good.  It is a recipe that I will
continue to make for my family.