Licorice Popcorn

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Ingredients

16 cups Popped popcorn, *

1 cup Sugar

cup Brown sugar

cup Water

cup Light corn syrup

cup Butter

teaspoon Baking soda

teaspoon Anise extract

1 tablespoon Black food coloring

Preparation

* 2 Tbls of unpopped popcorn will produce 4 cups (or 1 ounce) of popped popcorn.

Place popcorn in large buttered baking pan. Put the sugars, water, and corn syrup into a heavy pan over medium heat and stir. After the mix has boiled, scrape sides of pan. Place a candy thermometer in the pan and cook, without further stirring, to 250 . Remove pan from heat and stir in butter, baking soda, anise extract and food coloring. Pour over popcorn, mixing well.

Bake, uncovered, for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. When cooled, store in air-tight containers.