Recipe#4328

Title: Butter Crunch

Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 From: guyk@vianet.on.ca (Catherine Guy) 
 Subject: Old Fashioned Butter Crunch Candy 
 Message-ID: E4zGr0.I34@taranto.com 
 Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 16:06:35 GMT 

1 cup butter
 1 and 1/4 cups sugar
 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
 2 tablespoons water
 1 teaspoon vanilla
 2 cups finely chopped toasted almonds
 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate pieces
 Melt butter in a heavy 3 litre saucepan over low heat. Add sugar,
 corn syrup, and water. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly,
 until mixture reaches hard crack stage, (300 degrees on a candy
 thermometer.) Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla. Stir in toasted
 almonds. Spread mixture into a buttered 13 x 9 inch pan. Let stand
 5 minutes. Sprinkle with chocolate pieces. When chocolate is melted,
 spread evenly over candy. Let cool completely. When chocolate is
 set, break into pieces.