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Sugared Popped Corn

A historical dessert recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Gather

Ingredients

  • 2 quarts Popped Corn
  • 2 tablespoons Butter
  • 2 cups Brown Sugar
  • ½ cup Water

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Put butter in saucepan, and when melted add sugar and water. Bring to boiling-point, and let boil sixteen minutes. Pour over corn, and stir until every kernel is well coated with sugar.

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Where this recipe comes from

Sugared Popped Corn, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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