Tomzilla
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Shelled and roasted peanuts are bound with homemade caramel and set into a giant slab inspired by the Mr Tom peanut bar.
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- Ingredients: raw monkey nuts and redskin peanuts, 720g in total; caster sugar and glucose syrup, written together as 1kg 140g, so the list does not show whether the sugar is 1kg with 140g of syrup or 1.14kg with the syrup unmeasured; water, 5 ounces; butter at room temperature, 3 ounces; and 15ml of vanilla essence, which the method never uses. Costs: peanuts £1.54, butter 78p, caster sugar £1.70 and glucose syrup £2.80, with borrowed vanilla, £6.82 in all. The nuts were roasted, which also made them easier to skin, skinned by hand and laid on a baking tray, with a second tray buttered. The sugar, syrup, water and butter were brought to the boil in a heavy-bottomed saucepan over moderate heat, stirring constantly to dissolve the sugar, and boiled for 3 minutes until brown and tough, then thinning again with the heat. The caramel was poured over the peanuts on the tray and left to set. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6 · Source 7 · Source 8 · Source 9
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1. The ingredients of doom!
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3. We buttered a large baking tray; and set it aside. We then smoothed the surface of the tray and laid the nuts on another baking tray.
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Raw monkey nuts and redskin peanuts, skinned. 720g in total. Caster Sugar 1kg 140g Glucose Syrup Water 5 ounces Butter, at room temperature 3 ounces 15ml Vanilla Essence
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1. The ingredients of doom!
Raw monkey nuts and redskin peanuts, skinned. 720g in total.
Caster Sugar 1kg
140g Glucose Syrup
Water 5 ounces
Butter, at room temperature 3 ounces
15ml Vanilla Essence
Total cost:
Peanuts: £1.54
Butter: 78p
Caster Sugar: £1.70
Vanilla Essence: Borrowed from the cupboard, free!
Glucose Syrup: £2.80.
A grand total of £6.82.
2. After acquiring all the ingredients we skinned the nuts. Skinning nuts was fun…..but began to hurt the fingers after a while. We also roasted the nuts to make them more edible and to make them easier to skin.
3. We buttered a large baking tray; and set it aside. We then smoothed the surface of the tray and laid the nuts on another baking tray.
4. In a large heavy bottomed saucepan we combine the sugar, syrup, water, and butter.
5. We brought to a boil over moderate heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon of demise to dissolve sugar. (Trying to stop it from splashing was annoying)
6. Boiled for 3 minutes till it went all brown and tough. The mixture started to go quite tough but then thinned out due to the heat.
7. We then poured the caramel over the peanuts on the tray and left it to set!(Trying to pour caramel and taking a picture at the same time is dangerous.)
8. AHA the finished product Tomzilla! (warning contains peanuts.)
