Pop-corn Balls

Ingredients

• one ounce white gum arable
• half pint water
• one pound granulated sugar
• a half bushel of freshly popped corn

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve the gum in water, strain, add sugar, and boil until thick.

2. 2

   Pour over the popped corn and stir until the kernels adhere in a mass.

3. 3

   Form into balls with floured hands.

4. 4

   Ordinary molasses may be used boiled to the same degree, no gum being necessary.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 127. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pop-corn Balls. — Dissolve one ounce white gum arable in half pint water, strain, add one pound granulated sugar and boil until when a little is cooled in a saucer it becomes so thick as to be stirred with difficultv. Pour over a half bushel of freshly popped corn

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