2 cups sugar
1 cup white corn syrup
1/2 cup water
1 T. butter

Boil until soft ball stage.  Add 1 pound raw peanuts.  Cook until hard crack stage.  Remove from heat, add 2 heaping teaspoons of baking soda and 1 teaspoon vanilla.  Stir well and pour onto 2 buttered cookie sheets.  Shake until peanut brittle has smoothed out and is thin.