how to make peanut butter brittle?!

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Best peanut brittle

Ingredients
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup water
1 cup peanuts
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1 teaspoon baking soda

Method
Grease a large cookie sheet. Set aside.
In a heavy 2 quart saucepan, over medium heat, bring to a boil sugar, corn syrup, salt, and water.

Stir until sugar is dissolved. Stir in peanuts. Set candy thermometer in place, and continue cooking.

Stir frequently until temperature reaches 300 degrees, or until a small amount of mixture dropped into very cold water separates into hard and brittle threads.

Remove from heat; immediately stir in butter and baking soda; pour at once onto cookie sheet. With 2 forks, lift and pull peanut mixture into rectangle about 14x12 inches; cool. Snap candy into pieces.

1. Leave peanut butter out in the cold for many hours.
2. ?????
3. Congratulations, your peanut butter is brittle!