Beginners popcorn balls
8 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | quarts | Popped popcorn |
| 1 | cup | Sugar |
| ⅓ | cup | Corn syrup |
| ⅓ | cup | Water |
| ¼ | cup | Butter |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
Directions
Preheat oven to 250. Put popcorn in a large, 4 inch deep butered baking pan. Keep warm in the oven. Combine sugar, cornsyrup, water, butter and salt in a large saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Cook until mixture reaches 250 on a candy thermometer, stirring frequently. Remove from heat. Quickly stir in vanilla. Remove popcorn from oven. Pour syrup mixture over popcorn, stirring to mix well. Form into balls. Makes approximately 8 balls Variations: To make Spice Balls, subsitute 1 tbs of powdered spice or crushed herbs for vanilla To make butter balls, increase the butter to ⅓ cup and increase the