popcorn

Kathy McIntyre’s Carmel Popcorn
1 ¼ cup honey or Karo ¾ cup brown sugar

Boil these two ingredients and then stir in:

1 can sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated milk)

Boil again and then add:

1 cube (1/2 cup) butter

Cook to soft ball stage. Stir constantly so it doesn’t burn. Pour over 1 ½ gallons popped popcorn.

Microwave Cracker Jacks
2 cubes margarine 2 cup brown sugar
¼ cup Karo syrup 7 qt. popped corn

Boil margarine, brown sugar & Karo for 5 minutes. Pour over popped corn in large brown paper bag abd stir. Place in microwave for 1 ½ minutes and cook. Take out and shake well. Repeat 2 more times. Pour out onto counter and cool.

Microwave Honey Caramel Corn
18 cups popped popcorn ¼ cup honey
1 cup brown sugar ½ cup butter or margarine
½ tsp. salt ½ tsp. baking soda
1 cup peanut

Place popcorn in a large 4-5 quart microwave safe bowl. In another large mixture safe bowl combine brown sugar, butter, honey and salt. Bring to a boil on full power (2-3 minutes). Boil mixture for 3 minutes, stirring after every minute. Remove from microwave and stir in soda. Mix well. Pour foamy mixture over popcorn, add peanuts and coat as well as possible.

Put coated popcorn back in microwave and cook on full power 3 -3 ½ minutes, stirring every 30 seconds to coat popcorn well. As caramel corn cools, it becomes quite crisp. After cool, break popcorn loose and store in airtight container. Makes 18 cups.

Grandma Ann’s Popcorn Cake
½ cup butter
8 cups small marshmallows

Pour over 20 cups popped popcorn, M&M’s, jelly beans, gummy bears, etc.

Mold all together and press into a well-greased bundt pan. Then turn out onto a serving plate.

Sticky Popcorn
1 cup butter 1 cup brown sugar
3 cup marshmallow

Cook and stir over medium heat until all melted and sugar is not grainy. Pour over large bowl of popcorn.

Winona’s “Peanut-Butter Popcorn”
1 cup Karo syrup 1 cup sugar
1 cup peanut butter 2 gal. popped popcorn
2 tsp. vanilla (optional)

Bring the syrup and sugar to a boil. Add peanut butter ( can be either creamy or crunchy). Add vanilla, if desired. Pour over popcorn.

Yummy Zonkers
1 ½ cup unpopped popcorn 1 1/3 cup sugar
2 cubes butter ½ cup light corn syrup (Karo)

Pop popcorn. Bring to hard boil really fast. Add ¼ tsp of baking soda immediately. Pour over popcorn.

Jello Popcorn Balls
1 cup unpopped popcorn 1 cup light corn syrup (Karo)
½ cup sugar 1 (3 oz) pkg Jello, any flavor

Pop corn. Remove unpopped kernels. Combine corn syrup, sugar and Jello and cook over low heat until it turns clear ( about 5 minutes). Pour over popcorn and form into balls. Makes about twelve 3” diameter balls.