Title: Old-Time Popcorn Balls
Categories: Candy Dessert
Yield: 13 Servings

20	c	Popcorn (1 cup unpopped)
2	c	Sugar
1	c	Water
1/2	c	Light corn syrup
1	ts	Vinegar
1/2	ts	Salt
1	ts	Vanilla

Preheat oven to 300. Remove all unpopped kernels from popped corn. Put popcorn in a large roasting pan; keep warm in oven. Butter the sides of a 2-quart saucepan. In it combine sugar, water, corn syrup, vinegar, and salt. Cook to 270 deg (soft-crack stage), stirring frequently (mixture should boil gently over entire surface). Remove from heat; stir in vanilla. Slowly pour mixture over hot popcorn. Stir just until mixed. Butter hands; using a buttered cup, sccop up popcorn mixture. Shape with buttered hands into 2-1/2 to 3-inch balls.

From the recipe files of Sylvia Steiger, GEnie THE.STEIGERS, CI$ 71511,2253, GT Cookbook echo moderator at net/node 004/005

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