Boom Chicka Pop sweet and salty kettle corn, 19 oz, that's not much

I doubt that we have ever bought popped popcorn, nor kettle corn
(except perhaps for cracker jacks in our younger days). We tend
to pop our own at home from microwave bags such as Orville.

I gave up on store-bought microwaved popcorn some years ago because of

"Diacetyl is a chemical added to fake butter to enhance a buttery flavor.
This ingredient is found in most microwave popcorn products, as well as
other artificial butter enhanced food products.

When heated, diacetyl gives off vapor fumes. The fumes are said to be hazardous if inhaled"

https://www.popcornboss.com/microwave-popcorn-danger.html

I've also quit using butter-flavoured non-stick (cooking) sprays.

I've got a stirring rod equipped popcorn popper that lets me pop my
own using oil, butter-flavoured Crisco, or saved chilli oil skimmed
from a batch of red. It's almost as fast as nuking a paper bag and a
whole lot (to my mind) safer.

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Title: Mary Martin's Popcorn Balls
Categories: Candies, Grains
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/150°C).

Boil sugar, syrup, water and salt until 260°F/127°C.
Add vanilla and vinegar and boil to 265°F/130°C.

Food colouring 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 "old" woman I have ever known
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.

Poster credit missing.

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