{"id":18845,"date":"2020-01-19T14:22:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T21:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=18845"},"modified":"2020-04-13T17:45:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T00:45:25","slug":"popcorn-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/popcorn-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Popcorn Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of this from Alton Brown &#8211; Good Eats<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Try soaking in salted water before popping.&nbsp; This will put more moisture into the kernel<\/li>\n<li>Best varieties: Pearl and Rice\n<ul>\n<li>Yellow Topaz<\/li>\n<li>Baby Black Pearl<\/li>\n<li>Baby Blue Sapphire<\/li>\n<li>Purple Amethysist<\/li>\n<li>Pink Diamond<\/li>\n<li>Southwest Gold<\/li>\n<li>Baby Peral<\/li>\n<li>Baby Yellow Topaz<\/li>\n<li>Red Ruby<\/li>\n<li>Petite Princess<\/li>\n<li>Blue Sapphire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Use a pot that has a fairly small bottom<\/li>\n<li>Popper &#8211; Heavy guage large mixing bowl\n<ul>\n<li>Fat and kernels go to the bottom<\/li>\n<li>Fairly high heat<\/li>\n<li>3 TBL canola or peanut oil<\/li>\n<li>Yellow Topaz &#8211; 1\/2 C<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp Pickling Salt or Popcorn salt &#8211; or Blend regular salt<br \/>\nPut in container with a dozen popcorn kernels to break apart the clumps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Popcorn<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Large mixing bowl<\/li>\n<li>3 tablespoons peanut oil<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup popcorn<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon pickling salt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Cover with foil and poke holes<\/li>\n<li>Medium heat<\/li>\n<li>Shake until popcorn starts to subside, then shake more to keep the kernels in motion<\/li>\n<li>Drizzle 3 tablespoons butter &#8211; drizzle and toss<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Carmel corn<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Saucepan<\/li>\n<li>Thermometer<\/li>\n<li>Spatula<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>1\/2 sheet pan sprayed<\/li>\n<li>Parchment cut to size sprayed<\/li>\n<li>Very large mixing bowl<\/li>\n<li>Set oven to 250\u00b0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>One stick of butter in a saucepan<\/li>\n<li>16 ounce dark brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup molasses or dark syrup<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon vanilla<\/li>\n<li>Heat until 250\u00b0<\/li>\n<li>Mix 1 cup salted peanuts<\/li>\n<li>With 3 quarts of popped popcorn<\/li>\n<li>Add butter mixture to popcorn and mix quickly<\/li>\n<li>Spread on sheet pan<\/li>\n<li>Bake one hour at 250\u00b0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Breakfast tomorrow?<\/h2>\n<p>Popcorn, milk and sugar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of this from Alton Brown &#8211; Good Eats Try soaking in salted water before popping.&nbsp; This will put more moisture into the kernel Best varieties: Pearl and Rice Yellow Topaz Baby Black Pearl Baby Blue Sapphire Purple Amethysist Pink Diamond Southwest Gold Baby Peral Baby Yellow Topaz Red Ruby Petite Princess Blue Sapphire Use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/popcorn-notes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some Popcorn Notes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandpas-private-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18845"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19338,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18845\/revisions\/19338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}