Jane’s Popcorn Bars

Ingredients

• 2 cups white sugar
• 3 tablespoons cocoa
• 1/2 cup white corn syrup
• 1/4 cup milk
• pinch of salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 cups ground popcorn

Steps

1. Mix the sugar, cocoa, milk, syrup and salt and boil to the soft-ball stage.
2. Take it off the heat and stir in the vanilla, butter and ground popcorn.
3. Pour into buttered pans, flatten to about 1/4 inch thick and cut into bars.

Notes

From the booklet “Ed May’s Contest-Winning Popcorn Recipes” (Earl May Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Iowa, dated 9/82), which printed 27 recipes picked from more than 1,100 sent in by Midwest homemakers. The steps are in our own words; both sides of the booklet are shown below.

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Rosie Lee’s original recipe cards

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