Baked Caramel Corn - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. (2 sticks) butter or margarine
1 tsp. vanilla
6 qt. popped popcorn
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 c. light or dark corn syrup

Preparation

Melt butter; stir in brown sugar, corn syrup and salt.
Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
Boil without stirring 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
Stir in soda and vanilla.
Put popped corn in 2 large shallow pans.
Pour mixture over popped corn, mixing well. Bake at 250\u00b0 for 1 hour.
Take out of oven every 15 minutes and stir.
Cool completely.
Break apart and store in tightly covered container (Tupperware).
Makes about 5 quarts.