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Popcorn Balls Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup white corn syrup
1/3 cup water
1/4 cup butter
3/4 tsp. salt
3/4 tsp. vanilla
3 quarts popcorn
Directions:
Directions:
Stir and cook sugar, corn syrup, water, butter and salt until sugar is dissolved.

Continue cooking without stirring (270º) or until syrup forms a brittle ball in cold water.

Add vanilla. Pour syrup slowly over popcorn mix well to coat every kernel.

Grease hands with butter before shaping balls.
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
30 minutes
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This was a favorite recipe that my mom made for us when we were kids.
Mary Jane Rasco Woodward

 

 

 

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