Licorice popcorn
16 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | cups | Popped popcorn; * |
| 1 | cup | Sugar |
| ¼ | cup | Brown sugar |
| ¼ | cup | Water |
| ½ | cup | Light corn syrup |
| ¼ | cup | Butter |
| ½ | teaspoon | Baking soda |
| ½ | teaspoon | Anise extract |
| 1 | tablespoon | Black food coloring |
Directions
PATTI - VDRJ67A
* 2 tbls of unpopped popcorn will produce 4 cups (or 1 ounce) of popped popcorn.
Place popcorn in large buttered baking pan. Put the sugars, water, and corn syrup into a heavy pan over medium heat and stir. After the mix has boiled, scrape sides of pan. Place a candy thermometer in the pan and cook, without further stirring, to 250~. Remove pan from heat and stir in butter, baking soda, anise extract and food coloring. Pour over popcorn, mixing well.
Bake, uncovered, for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. When cooled, store in air-tight containers.
Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 654 by RecipeLu <recipelu@...> on Jan 31, 1998