Recipe - Mary Martins Popcorn Balls

5 qt Popped popcorn, warm
2 cup Sugar
One half cup Light corn syrup
1 One half cup Water
1 teaspoon Vinegar
One half teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Vanilla

Keep corn hot & crisp in slow oven (300øF). Boil sugar, syrup, water and
salt until 254ø 260øF. Add vanilla and vinegar and boil to 264øF. Food
coloring can be added at this point. Slowly pour over corn, stirring well
so every kernel is coated. Press into balls and let cool until hard. Wrap
in plastic wrap.

Mary was a spinster neighbor when I was a child who had to be the youngest
woman I have ever know and the best substitute grandmother a child could
have ever wished for. She knew that her mother had been making this recipe
as far back as 1880.

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini