Amish Pecan Brittle

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One of the ways the Amish celebrate the Christmas season is through food. Candy bark, peanut brittle, and homemade cookies are favorite treats for Amish homemakers to make and give away as gifts. Christmas candy making is a big tradition in Amish kitchens.

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• 🥜 Amish Pecan Brittle
• 📋 Instructions
• 🥜Other Amish Nut Recipes
• 🖨️ Full Recipe

Peanuts, black walnuts, and almonds are all favorites among Amish bakers. But so are pecans! Pecans, while expensive, are often plentiful in Amish bulk food stores and many Mennonite farmers in the South grow pecans. Growing pecans isn't really that difficult, turns out.

This recipe is reminiscent of popular peanut brittle but with the rich, deep flavor of pecans instead. This is a bit like a crunchy praline.

Our friend Jessica made this recipe, which comes from an Amish woman in Tennessee (where pecans are plentiful). Jessica took a crack at the recipe and really liked it.

Here is her take on the Amish Pecan Brittle recipe, after gathering the ingredients together:

This was a fairly simple recipe to make, but since I had never made it before, I didn’t let the first batch boil long enough. I thought it was “turning brown” after about 5 minutes, but it had much longer to go.

I got a candy thermometer for my second attempt and it was as easy as could be. I let it boil until it reached 295 degree F.  It took about 10-15 minutes to reach this temp and it really did start to turn brown like the recipe says and became much thicker like a caramel consistency.

Store in an airtight container. Peanut brittle is one of my favorite sweets, so pecan brittle is right up there too. You could add a teaspoon vanilla extract to the recipe if you like that extra flavor.

🥜 Amish Pecan Brittle

2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1 cup water
⅛ teaspoon salt
2 cups chopped pecans
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon baking soda

📋 Instructions

Lightly grease a baking sheet and set aside.

1. Combine sugar, light corn syrup, water and salt in a large, heavy skillet.
2. Bring to a rolling boil over medium-high heat.
3. Add chopped pecans; continue cooking until the syrup begins to turn
   brown.
4. Remove from heat and stir in butter and baking soda.
5. Pour onto prepared baking or cookie sheet.Cool completely before breaking into pieces.
   Makes 16 servings.

🥜Other Amish Nut Recipes

Amish cooks find nuts to be a very versatile, fla vorful addition to recipes and they show up a lot during the holidays!

Amish Nut Brownies

Delicious browneis!

Fudge Nut Bars

Fudgy, and nutty, what could be better?

Amish Toffee Nut Bars

Amazing!

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