Name: Pop Corn
Ingredients: 1 cup popcorn kernels; 2 tablespoons butter; ¼ teaspoon salt; optional: fruit for serving

Pop Corn

Ingredients

1 cup popcorn kernels
2 tablespoons butter
¼ teaspoon salt
optional: fruit for serving

Directions

Make the popcorn

Pop the popcorn kernels using your preferred method.

Season and serve

Melt the butter in a small saucepan.
Drizzle the melted butter over the popped corn.
Sprinkle with salt and toss to combine.
Serve hot with optional fruit on the side.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Popcorn kernels: Pop into the light, crisp bulk that makes up the snack.
Butter: Adds richness and flavour, and helps the salt cling to the popped corn.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.