You can use a candy thermometer to know when you’ve cooked the sugar to the so-called hard ball (255 degrees to 260 degrees) stage, or you can just use a cup of ice water.

It should be lightly golden brown — the color of peanut brittle — and reach 300 F to 305 F. Next, add the baking soda, stir vigorously and immediately pour onto a buttered baking sheet.

Halloween is the time for old-fashioned treats. Apple bobbing, caramel apples, popcorn balls and peanut brittle. I first made peanut brittle as a child with my grandmother. It was simple, crunchy ...

For a treat, I embellished my grandmother’s brittle recipe to make a bacon-peanut brittle that was handed out as the parting gift at the end of the meal. And it was the hit of the evening.

Halloween is the time for old-fashioned treats. Apple bobbing, caramel apples, popcorn balls and peanut brittle! I first made peanut brittle as a child with my grandmother. It was simple, crunchy and ...

Halloween is the time for old-fashioned treats: apple bobbing, caramel apples, popcorn balls and peanut brittle. I first made peanut brittle as a child with my grandmother. It was simple, crunchy and ...

The trick is to buy thick, meaty apple wood-smoked bacon, then dice it and cook the bacon slowly until the fat is fully rendered and the meat is a reddish mahogany.

For a treat, I embellished my grandmother’s brittle recipe to make a bacon-peanut brittle that was handed out as the parting gift at the end of the meal. And it was the hit of the evening!

Bacon and ice cream may sound hard to combine successfully, but these two tricks from an expert make it easy to whip up a ...

She loved to make homemade candy and her peanut brittle was my favorite, though her fudge and pecan divinity were close behind. […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 35°F.