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    "title": "How is peanut brittle made?",
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    "excerpt": "Peanut brittle is sugar syrup boiled to hard crack, about 146 to 154°C, with peanuts stirred in, poured thin onto a slab and broken once cool.",
    "content_text": "Brittle is a sweet made of flat, broken pieces of hard sugar candy with nuts such as pecans, almonds or peanuts set into it. It is usually less than 1 cm thick. In the United States, peanut brittle is the most popular brittle recipe.\nHow American peanut brittle is made\nBoil to hard crack. Sugar and water are heated to the hard crack stage, about 146 to 154°C. Some recipes add glucose and salt at this point: see how are sweets made?Add the peanuts. The nuts are mixed into the hot, caramelised sugar.Enrich. Spices, a raising agent, and often peanut butter or butter are added.Pour and spread. The hot candy is poured onto a flat surface to cool, typically a granite or marble slab or a baking sheet, and may be spread to an even thickness.Break. When it is cool enough to handle, it is broken into pieces. It is rare for brittle to break into equal pieces.\nA sweet the world shares\nThe word brittle first appeared in print for the sweet in 1892, but the candy itself is much older, and it has variations around the world:\nChikki in India, and gachak in Indian PunjabPasteli in GreeceCroquant or nougatine in France, where nougatine uses sliced almonds in clear caramelCroccante in Italy and krokant in GermanyPé de moleque in Brazil and palanqueta in MexicoGozinaki in GeorgiaPraline in Louisiana, traditionally made with pecans\nIn parts of the Middle East brittle is made with pistachios, while many Asian countries use sesame seeds and peanuts.\nBrittle, toffee and honeycomb\nBrittle is cooked to the same hard crack stage as hard toffee, but it is built around nuts: see how is toffee made? Honeycomb toffee is aerated with baking soda instead: see how is honeycomb toffee made?\nAllergens\nBrittle is made with nuts, and peanuts and tree nuts are both among the 14 allergens that must be declared: see which sweets contain nuts?",
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