Buttery Peanut Brittle

2 Cup Sugar 1 Cup Light Corn Syrup
1/2 Cup Water 1 Cup Butter Or Oleo
2 Cup Peanuts, Chopped 1 Tsp Soda

Heat and stir sugar,syrup and water in three quart. Sauce pan till sugar dissolves.When syrup boils stir in oleo. Stir often after 230 degrees. Add nuts at 280,stir constantly stir till hard crack stage (305)remove from heat . Quickly stir in soda, mixing well.Pour onto two cookie sheets.Stretch thin by lifting and pulling from edges with forks. Loosen from pan as soon as possible.Makes 2/12 pounds.

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