2 cup butter
2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup karo syrup
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla extract
6 qt popped popcorn
Directions
Mix Butter, Brown Sugar, Salt and Karo Syrup together
in pan, cook for 5 minutes and remove from heat. Stir
in Baking Soda and Vanilla then pour mixture over
popped popcorn. Place on pan in 200 deg oven for 1
hour stirring every 15 min.
Servings: 6 servings
Karen's Caramel Corn Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Candy; Dessert
The History of Recipes
Academics have proved the existence of recipes way back into antiquity, in truth as far back as the Egypt of the Pharoahs, and quite possibly further than that. Interesting though that is, in the main part, these early cookbooks were just very simple pictorial recipes for meal preparation.
Fascinatingly, the most ancient recipe discovered, according to academics are a few clay tablets in ancient Sumerian which recount the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made drinkers feel blissful. As our culinary historical trip moves to more modern times there were two books published in the fourteenth century ; a cookery book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another entitled `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are somewhat misleading tho`, these two books are not about the indian curry that is popular today, but rather descriptions of the types of food cooked for the rich people of that time. In the 15th century, people returning from the crusades brought us many new foods and spices from the holy land, including parsley and basil. These new foods and tastes led to an increase in recipe books, many of which still exist in academic collections. Over the next few centuries, the rich and powerful families of Wesstern Europe tried to offer the most extravagent banquests, and consequentially the best cooks and their recipe collections were much in demand. However, it was during the nineteenth century that cookery and recipe collections really came of age. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Merritt Farmer in the USA, dedicated years of their lives to collating, trying out, and writing down recipes of the day. By the arrival of the twentieth century, cookery books were starting to become popular as a result of better eduction, people having increased free time and having more disposable income. The introduction of television brings us celebrity TV chefs and the demand for the spin-off recipe books. Which pretty much brings us to the present day and the internet revolution, permitting us all to search through massive numbers of recipes like the ones you can find on sites such as this. |
We hope you enjoy this Karen's Caramel Corn recipe.
