Name: Old Timey Popcorn Balls
Ingredients: 20 c Popcorn (1 cup unpopped); 2 c Sugar; 1 c Water; 1/2 c Light corn syrup; 1 ts Vinegar; 1/2 ts Salt; 1 ts Vanilla

We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self. Indeed, what could be more ludicrous in a vast and glorious universe like this than a human being, on the speck called earth, standing in front of a mirror trying to find significance in his own self-image? It is a great sadness that this is the gospel of the modern world. The Christian Gospel is about 'the glory of Christ,' not about me. And when it is—in some measure—about me, it is not about my being made much of by God, but about God mercifully enabling me to enjoy making much of Him forever.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

20	c	Popcorn (1 cup unpopped)
2	c	Sugar
1	c	Water
1/2	c	Light corn syrup
1	ts	Vinegar
1/2	ts	Salt
1	ts	Vanilla

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 300. Remove all unpopped kernels from popped corn. Put
popcorn in a large roasting pan; keep warm in oven. Butter the sides of a
2-quart saucepan. In it combine sugar, water, corn syrup, vinegar, and
salt. Cook to 270 deg (soft-crack stage), stirring frequently (mixture
should boil gently over entire surface). Remove from heat; stir in vanilla.
Slowly pour mixture over hot popcorn. Stir just until mixed. Butter hands;
using a buttered cup, scoop up popcorn mixture. Shape with buttered hands
into 2-1/2 to 3-inch balls.
Posted to Bakery-Shoppe Digest V1 #254 by Shelley Sparks
<ssparks@mailbox.arn.net> on Sep 20, 1997

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