Popcorn Balls - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. sugar
1/3 c. white corn syrup
1/3 c. water
1/4 c. butter
3/4 tsp. salt
3/4 tsp. vanilla

Preparation

Cook and stir sugar, corn syrup, water, butter and salt in a saucepan until sugar dissolves.
Without stirring, continue cooking until syrup forms a brittle ball when a drop is tested in cold water.
Add small quantity of vanilla, stirring only enough to mix it through the hot syrup.
Pour hot syrup over popped corn and mix. Moisten hands and, with quick action, shape to desired form. (Color syrup with cake coloring if desired.)