When making homemade peanut brittle what can I do to make the brittle harden up?

When I麓ve cooked homemade peanut brittle it never gets hard enough, its like pasty and gelly like, i can never get it real hard, what can I do for it to really harden up?When making homemade peanut brittle what can I do to make the brittle harden up?
with brittle when it is done cooking you will smell a slight carmalized smell and the it will start to get dark also. Your not cooking it long enough. Also if you pay close attention to the tention on the wooden spoon your using (not metal) you can feel the brittle getting thick as you stir. You can see the change of size and roll pattern of the brittle when it is done. You can put a glass plate in the freezer and drop a few test samples on the plate when you think it is done. It will harden very fast on a cold plate. HINT: as soon as your done with your cooking pot fill it with water or you will be scrubbing for hours to get this stuff out. lol


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Cheri'When making homemade peanut brittle what can I do to make the brittle harden up?
Sounds like you're not cooking it hot enough. Either get a candy thermometer or take a drop of your brittle and drop it into cold water, if it becomes very hard and cracks, you've got it hot enough. Old family recipes often refer to candy as soft ball, hard ball, crack, etc. This is what the candy does when you drop in into cold water.
The trick is to have a candy


thermometer handy, you are


not getting it hot enough or


not cooking it long enough.








**Keep it stirred in order to


keep it hot.


**Use cold water in a cup and


drizzle some of the candy into it


to test for hardness.
You have to let it reach the hard ball stage and keep it there for a few minutes. Use a candy temother.