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This peanut brittle recipe may be made with Brazil nuts, pecans, or other nuts besides peanuts. You might even like to try it with puffed rice or puffed wheat.

What You Need:

1 cup sugar
¼ cup shelled peanuts

How to Make It:

Remove skins from peanuts. Chop them up and spread them in a buttered pan. Heat the sugar in a heavy frying pan until it turns to a light brown syrup, stirring constantly. Pour this syrup over the peanuts. When cool, break candy into pieces.