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     Title: Old-Time Popcorn Balls
Categories: Candies, Desserts
     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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