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      Title: Mary Martin's Popcorn Balls
 Categories: Candies, Xmas-93
      Yield: 36 Servings
 
      5 qt Popped popcorn, warm
      2 c  Sugar
    1/2 c  Light corn syrup
  1 1/2 c  Water
      1 ts Vinegar
    1/2 ts Salt
      1 ts Vanilla
 
  Keep corn hot & crisp in slow oven (300°F).  Boil sugar, syrup, water
  and salt until 254°- 260°F.  Add vanilla and vinegar and boil to
  264°F. 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.
 
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