Pop Corn Balls
Ingredients
Directions
Make the syrup
Dissolve the sugar in enough water to cover it.
Boil until the syrup can form threads.
Coat and shape
Place popcorn in a pan and pour the candy syrup over it.
Mix well and shape into balls.
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.
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What each ingredient does
- White sugar
- Cooks into a syrup that hardens as it cools, binding the popcorn together and adding sweetness.
- Popcorn
- Forms the bulk of each ball, providing a light, crisp texture under the sugar coating.
The step that matters
Boil until the syrup can form threads. Sugar syrup set by temperature. Stopping too early leaves the syrup too soft and sticky to hold the balls, while cooking too far makes it hard and brittle once cooled.
“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.
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