Aunt Bill's Brown Candy

Name: Aunt Bill's Brown Candy
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 30
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 0 teaspoons baking soda; 237 milliliters half and half; 946 milliliters pound pecans, toasted, coarsely chopped (about; 710 milliliters sugar, divided; 5 Tbsps unsalted butter, cut into cubes; 1 teaspoons vanilla extract; 59 milliliters water

Aunt Bill's Brown Candy is a gluten free, fodmap friendly, and vegetarian hor d'oeuvre. This recipe makes 30 servings with 196 calories, 1g of protein, and 12g of fat each. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes. If you have baking soda, water, vanillan extract, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Butter 8x8x2-inch metal baking pan.

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Butter

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Baking Pan

Combine 2 cups sugar and half and half inheavy large saucepan. Stir occasionally overlow heat until sugar dissolves. Set aside.

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Half And Half

Sugar

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Sauce Pan

Bring remaining 1 cup sugar and 1/4 cupwater to boil in heavy medium saucepanover medium-low heat, stirring until sugardissolves. Increase heat; continue boilingwithout stirring until syrup turns deepamber, brushing sides of pan with wetbrush and swirling pan, about 8 minutes.

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Sugar

Syrup

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Frying Pan

Immediately pour caramel syrup intohalf and half mixture in large saucepan(mixture will bubble). Stir constantly overmedium-low heat until caramel dissolves.Attach candy thermometer to side ofpan. Increase heat to medium. Continuecooking and stirring until mixture registers244°F, about 12 minutes.

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Caramel Sauce

Caramel

Candy

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Candy Thermometer

Sauce Pan

Remove fromheat and immediately stir in baking soda(mixture will foam slightly).

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Baking Soda

Add butter andstir to melt.

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Butter

Let stand without stirring untilmixture cools to 160°F, about 20 minutes.

Mix in vanilla. Using large wooden spoon,stir constantly until candy begins to thickenand loses its gloss, 4 to 5 minutes.

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Vanilla

Candy

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Wooden Spoon

Mix innuts (candy will be very stiff). Scrape candyinto prepared pan. Using wet fingertips,press candy firmly into pan. Coolcompletely, then cut into 30 squares.

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Candy

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Frying Pan