OLD-FASHIONED POP CORN BALLS
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OLD-FASHIONED POP CORN BALLS
2 quarts Popped Corn
1 cup Granulated sugar
1/3 cup Light corn syrup
1/3 cup Water
1/4 cup Butter
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Vanilla
Keep popped pop corn warm in 200°F oven while preparing syrup. In 2-quart saucepan, stir together sugar, corn syrup, water, butter and salt. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil. Continue cooking without stirring until temperature reaches 270°F on a candy thermometer or until a small amount of syrup dropped into very cold water separates into threads, which are hard but not brittle. Remove from heat. Add vanilla; stir just enough to mix through hot syrup. Slowly pour
over pop corn, stirring to coat every kernel. Cool just enough to handle. Shape into balls, using buttered hands. Cool on foil or buttered wax paper. Wrap in plastic wrap; tie with a
ribbon.
