Peanut Nougat Recipe

Ingredients for Peanut Nougat

• 1 lb. sugar
• 1 quart peanuts

Instructions

1. Shell, remove skins, and finely chop peanuts.
2. Sprinkle with one-fourth teaspoon salt.
3. Put sugar in a perfectly smooth granite saucepan, place on range, and stir constantly until melted to a syrup, taking care to keep sugar from sides of pan.
4. Add nut meat, pour at once into a warm buttered tin, and mark in small squares.
5. If sugar is not removed from range as soon as melted, it will quickly caramelize.