Licorice Popcorn
By: Anonymous
Published: Friday, February 12, 2010 - 5:48pm

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

1 * 2 Tbls of unpopped popcorn will produce 4 cups (or 1 ounce) of popped popcorn. 2 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. 3 Bake, uncovered, for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. When cooled, store in air-tight containers.

Comments:
Dianne

Everyone's giving the same licorice popcorn recipe.  The only problem is, no one's supplying the temperature to bake the coated popcorn at, after the syrup reaches 250.