Licorice popcorn

16 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
16 cups Popped popcorn; *
1 cup Sugar
¼ cup Brown sugar
¼ cup Water
½ cup Light corn syrup
¼ cup Butter
½ teaspoon Baking soda
½ teaspoon Anise extract
1 tablespoon Black food coloring

Directions

PATTI - VDRJ67A

* 2 tbls of unpopped popcorn will produce 4 cups (or 1 ounce) of popped popcorn.

Place popcorn in large buttered baking pan. Put the sugars, water, and corn syrup into a heavy pan over medium heat and stir. After the mix has boiled, scrape sides of pan. Place a candy thermometer in the pan and cook, without further stirring, to 250~. Remove pan from heat and stir in butter, baking soda, anise extract and food coloring. Pour over popcorn, mixing well.

Bake, uncovered, for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. When cooled, store in air-tight containers.

Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 654 by RecipeLu <recipelu@...> on Jan 31, 1998

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