Green Popcorn Balls for Trees

This recipe is from "Gingerbread For All Seasons" by Teresa Layman. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1997

Ingredients

17 cups of popped popcorn (about 2/3 cup unpopped)
2 cups sugar
2/3 cup water
2/3 cup light corn syrup
2 teas salt
1/2 cup butter
2 teas vanilla
1/8 teas green paste food color

Preparation

Step 1

Measure popcorn into a very large bowl. in a 5 quart pot, mix sugar, water, light corn syrup, salt, and butter. Bring mixture to a boil over medium heat. mixture will boil up quite high in pan. cook to 250 degrees F (hard ball stage). Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla and green paste color. Pour hot candy mixture in a thin stream over popcorn, stirring constantly to mix well. With buttered hands, shape mixture into balls. mixture will be HOT, so handle with care. make about 10 popcorn balls.

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