popcorn

[paulz]

Bought daughter a popcorn maker for birthday. Works well, but you can only add the flavorings/toppings afterwards. She's after something like the Butterkist stuff, ie buttery.sweet & cruchy ish. Any ideas?

[treaclefight]

hello paulz, we've got somthing close to butterkist by doing the following....you need to melt about a tablespoon of butter, stir in 3 tablespoons of water and 4 tablespoons of sugar, do it slowly, no burning or boiling or it goes bitter, but slowly is easy honest. the hard part is getting it evenly throughout the popcorn, thats just trial and error and practice, so far my best bet is to put popcorn and topping (not too hot) into a food bag so you can squidge it all about, being a man i'm sure you can improve the technique, but the trials are the most fun bit, especially for little girls the age ours are. you're going to be sick of the sight of it soon, :-D

[treaclefight]

forgot to say that the crunchiness seems to be improved by bunging the food bag full of popcorn in the freezer for a minute, cooling faster stops it soaking in (thats our guess anyway). :-D

[paulz]

Treacle - you always were my top poster of supereb answers - you've saved my bacon big X's!! If I could award more than 3 measly stars I would so * * * * * * * Will let you know how it goes - as soon as I can escape work, that is. Can now use this for bribery to get the [it's so-o-o boring!!] homework done first & playtime after. Cheers again, will be toasting the treacles this arvo!

[archbishop]

Don't forget the caramel toffees. Now whose crossoving ( Is that a word)?

[paulz]

Archbishop - sorry it's either too early or too deep for me; I'm missing your joke could you explain for yjose less gifted?

[ankerlet]

Didn't treacle mention caramel toffees somewhere else or haven't you read your post yet?

[treaclefight]

dates, chronology, question started here, then an update on how it all went (coz this is not the place for personal chats) went on on answerbok, i think you probably read the comments in reverse order. hope that explains it.

[FTVS]

50g caster sugar, 50g butter - melt together over low heat until sugar melted - add 1/2 drops almand flalvouring and 50g chopped almonds. Combine with popcorn in big bowl - I find it is best with 2 forks. Then cover a big baking tray (I use the drip tray from the grill) with greaseproof paper, spread the popcorn as evenly as you can, bake in oven for approx 8 mins occasionally mixing up again to get an even cover. Leave to cool - it will be dead crunchy and very yummy!