What is Peanut brittle?
{{Infobox prepared food|name=Brittle|image=Golden peanut brittle cracked on a serving dish.jpg|image_size=250px|caption=Golden peanut brittle cracked on a serving dish|alternate_name=|country=|region=|creator=|course=|type=[[Confectionery]]|served=|main_ingredient=[[Sugar]], [[Nut (fruit)|nuts]], [[water]], [[butter]]|variations=|calories=|other=}} '''Brittle''' is a type of [[Confectionery|sweet]] consisting of flat broken pieces of hard [[sugar]] candy with nuts mixed into it, such as [[pecan]]s, [[almond]]s, or [[peanut]]s.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-DL6SqOwx3kC&q=brittle&pg=PA115|title=Sweet Tooth: The Bittersweet History of Candy|last=Kate Hopkins|publisher=Macmillan|year=2012|isbn=9781250011190|page=34|access-date=April 11, 2013}}</ref> It is usually less than 1 centimeter thick. It has many variations around the world, such as ''[[pasteli]]'' in [[Greece]], ''[[sohan]]'' in [[Iran]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PnBhZttHWdUC&q=pasteli+in+Greece&pg=PA251|title=Gourmet Gifts: 100 Delicious Recipes for Every Occasion to Make Yourself & Wrap with Style|last=Dinah Corley|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|year=2011|isbn=978-1558324350|page=251}}</ref> [[croquant]] in [[France]],<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Sorcerer's Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adrià's elBulli|url=https://archive.org/details/sorcerersapprent0000aben_w5u6|last=Lisa Abend|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=2011|page=[https://archive.org/details/sorcerersapprent0000aben_w5u6/page/82 82]}}</ref> [[Alegría (Mexican food)|alegría or palanqueta]] in [[Mexico]],<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 21, 2015|title=El origen de la palabra Palanqueta y La Fiesta del Maíz|url=https://deliciasprehispanicas.com/2015/12/21/el-origen-de-la-palabra-palanqueta-y-la-fiesta-del-maiz/}}</ref> ''[[gozinaki]]'' in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Gachak|''gachak'' or ''gajak'']] in Indian [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], [[''Chikki|''chikki'']] in other parts of [[India]], ''[[kotkoti]]'' in [[Bangladesh]], ''[[