It snowed last night. Only about an inch, but it will make my children happy. They, like all children, are really hoping we'll have snow on Christmas.
I have to drive one son to the dentist this morning. Although I'm not much looking forward to the 200 miles I will spend in the car today, it will give me the opportunity to buy the gifts two boys are supposed to have for their class gift exchanges. I was just given the suggested gift ideas yesterday, which means no time to get anything ordered online and delivered. My choices for gift-buying today are Tractor Supply, Dollar General, and the grocery store. I can work with that.
I went to our staff Christmas party last night and I brought this maple popcorn. Holy cow, is it good.
I tripled the recipe, because six cups of popcorn doesn't really go that far*. I also added a full half teaspoon of salt, instead of a few pinches. The recipe as written will make something like caramel corn. If you add more salt to it, it makes something like kettle corn, which I like much better.
Using the dark maple syrup works so well for this. So much flavor.
It was, I must admit, a little bit of a pain. One of these days I should probably get a candy thermometer for things like this, so I'm not messing around with bowls of ice water to determine a "soft ball." Also, I decided halfway through that I didn't have nearly enough, so I was popping popcorn while making the syrup. Also also, I made so much, there was just a lot of bulk to be finding bowls and pans for.
Worth it, though. I would recommend it for any party you might be attending this season. It would also be very handy to make and put in little bags for any larger groups of people you might need gifts for, like neighbors or co-workers.
That's all my notes for today. Have a lovely day.
* It doesn't go far with my family, that is. A single recipe would have been adequate for my party contribution, but there was no way I was getting out of the house without leaving some of this for my family to eat while I was gone. They can eat a lot of popcorn. Especially popcorn liberally drizzled with maple syrup and butter.
4 comments:
I saw a youtube video of someone making butter fudge...she used a thermometer that looked similar to those touchless human thermometer only it was black and oj or red. Just point in down in the pan of hot candy to be and it reads the temperature for you...I think she said it was laser.
Maple caramel corn...omg. Mom has made it with sorghum as well.
I have had real maple syrup cotton candy at a maple syrup making exhibit....I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
There is nothing like "real" maple syrup.
I see them on Amazon for 10.99.... I will buy you one for Christmas!
Between Tractor Supply and Dollar General, I could do a lot of my Christmas shopping! The grocery store tends to have overpriced goodies, so I resist temptation there.
Whenever I tried batch baking for gifts in recent years, something always failed. So now I just give Target gift cards. I figure if the teacher doesn't want it, it's easy enough to regift!
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