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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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