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Candied Popcorn

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. one cup of powdered sugar
  2. one tablespoonful of butter
  3. two quarts of fresh popped corn
  4. three tablespoonfuls of water
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Into an agate kettle put one tablespoonful of butter, three tablespoonfuls of water, and one cup of powdered sugar.
  2. Boil till just ready to candy, then turn into the kettle two quarts of fresh popped corn.
  3. Stir briskly with a wire spoon, using care not to crush the corn, until the syrup is evenly distributed.
  4. Then remove the kettle from the fire, and stir till the corn is cooled a little, and each separate grain is crystallized with the syrup.
  5. Take care not to burn the corn while it is over the fire in the syrup.
  6. While stirring it about after it is removed from the fire, red sugar may be sprinkled over it.
  7. This will fasten to the corn with the syrup.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
  • Kettle