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Show An old favorite One of the most popular Christmas candies is the popcorn ball: round and delicious, although sometimes some-times a real challenge to the teeth. But such Christmas sweets are fun to make. Get together with the kids and try it. Here are all the ingredients you need. POPCORN BALLS l'2 rupi of popt orn ' 4 talilopoon of Imttt-r or olfomarparint' 'n cup of water 1 cup of Miliar ' ?i cup of corn i-yrup 1 teaspoon of sail 1 teaspoon of vanilla First, of course, make the popcorn. The amount of unpopped popcorn indicated in-dicated will make about seven cups of popped corn, anywhere from 12 to 15 popcorn balls. Set the popcorn pop-corn aside for a second in a large bowl. In a saucepan, mix the butter (or oleomargarine), water, sugar, corn syrup and salt with the popped corn. Cook this over a medium heat until (via your own testing method) a few drops form a hard ball when dropped into cold water. Remove from heat. Then stir in the vanilla, pouring it in a thin stream over the popped corn and stirring constantly to mix well. Shape the popcorn into balls with buttered hands and set the balls down on waxed paper to cool for awhile. Soon the popcorn balls will be ready for consumption. consump-tion. By merely straightening a paper clip, you can create cre-ate a tree decoration. Push one hooked end of a paper clip into the popcorn ball for a hanger. The other end can hang from the tree branches. Red, green and yellow cellophane paper is perfect per-fect for making party favors fa-vors or surprise treats out of the popcorn balls. Merely Mere-ly cut out a piece of the cellophane in a square which wraps nicely around the entire ball, then tie one end with colorful ribbon. |