Beginners popcorn balls

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Preparation Time:

10 Min

Serves:

Difficulty:

Easy

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Main Ingredients:

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Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

2 qt Popped popcorn
1 c Sugar
1/3 c Corn syrup
1/3 c Water
1/4 c Butter
1/4 ts Salt
1 ts Vanilla

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 1/3 cup and increase the