Pop-corn Bars

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Ingredients 5 ingredients

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.
Hot sugar. Hot sugar sticks to skin and burns far hotter than boiling water: don't touch or taste it. Keep a bowl of cold water close, and keep children away while it cooks.
Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Take two cups of sugar, one-half cupful of water and boil to the hard ball stage.
Add vanilla flavoring or any desired flavoring.
Crush some fresh pop-corn with a rolling pin, and stir into the syrup.
When the corn has been perfectly mixed with the syrup press into a square or oblong buttered pan to the depth of about an inch, patting it smooth on top.
When cool cut into bars with a very sharp knife.