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Caramel Corn Recipe

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This recipe is from a favorite old cookbook in my collection, Southern Living 1988 Annual Recipes (Southern Living Annual Recipes). Try it, you’ll absolutely love it and your family will sing your praises through their sticky teeth.

Caramel Corn

Vegetable Cooking Spray
6 Quarts popped corn
1-1/2 cups pecan halves
1-1/2 cups firmly packed brown sugar
3/4 cup butter or margarine
3/4 cup light corn syrup
1-1/2 cups raw peanuts
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Coat 2 large roasting pans with cooking spray. Combine popcorn and pecans in pans; set aside.

Combine sugar, butter, corn syrup, and peanuts in a large saucepan; bring to a boil, and boil 5 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in soda and vanilla.

Pour mixture evenly over popcorn mixture. Stir with a lightly greased long-handled spoon until popcorn is well coated. Bake at 250 degrees for 1 hour, stirring every 20 minutes. Remove from oven, and immediately pour onto waxed paper, breaking it apart as it cools. Store in airtight containers.

Yield: 6-1/2 Quarts


Oh Nuts!

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I’ve got nothing but big love for Oh Nuts.  Big, huge, colossal love.  For one thing, I’m the biggest nut lover in the world and for another, they recently sent me two huge bags of walnuts and pecans to review for the food blog. Seriously, if they ever come up with a word that means bigger than big and larger than large – it’ll describe my love for Oh Nuts.

These people know all there is to know about nuts and the proof is in the pudding… rather the proof is in the nuts.

My favorite nut happens to be the Heavenly pecan, but I’ve never met one I didn’t like.  I’ll be adding a few nut-licious recipes to the blog over the coming days – all in honor of my new buddies at Oh Nuts.  The first one stars my much beloved pecans, but I’m sure you saw that one coming.

When you purchase 1 lb bags of walnuts or pecans from Oh Nuts, you’ll flip over the convenient bag they come in almost as much as you do the delicious nuts. Almost.  The bags are great looking, for one thing, and for another they’re extremely easy to get in and out of…. which is a GREAT thing for snackers like me!  I knew I wanted to use the nuts for holiday recipes, but I found myself repeatedly getting into the bags for convenient, delicious, healthy snacks.

Oh Nuts actually has more than just nuts. A LOT more.  You could, literally, do the majority of your Christmas shopping on this one website – and do it today for free shipping. Below are just some of the great things you’ll find on Oh Nuts:

  • Nuts (you didn’t think I’d leave them out, did you?)
  • Candy
  • Dried Fruit
  • Chocolate
  • Baking Supplies
  • Baking Goods
  • Gift Sets
  • Gift Boxes
  • Ice Cream
  • Ice Pops
  • And more!

See Oh Nuts for more information. Trust me, they’ll blow you away.