{"id":19175,"date":"2020-04-04T16:45:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T23:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=19175"},"modified":"2020-04-04T16:50:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T23:50:15","slug":"cracker-jacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/cracker-jacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracker Jacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actually, I guess I can’t call them that.  Let’s call these things Grandpa Jacks.  See also  “TRAIL MIX<\/a>”<\/p>\n

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  1. Pop 8-10 cups of popcorn ( 1\/3 C popcorn kernels )<\/li>\n
  2. Strain out the old maids and discard them<\/li>\n
  3. Set pristine popcorn aside<\/li>\n
  4. Add 1.5 C packed brown sugar to a large mixing bowl<\/li>\n
  5. Add 3 TBL water and 1\/4 C Karo syrup to the brown sugar<\/li>\n
  6. Start to heat sugars on medium-high<\/li>\n
  7. When sugars barely begin to boil measure the temperature<\/li>\n
  8. At 230\u00ba add 1\/2 C butter<\/li>\n
  9. stir constantly with a wooden spoon<\/li>\n
  10. At 260\u00ba add the finished popcorn that has been set aside and sprinkle with 1\/4 tsp cayenne pepper and 1\/2 tsp pickling salt or other finely ground salt<\/li>\n
  11. Add 1\/2 C roasted peanuts – just a little bit at a time or they will stick together<\/li>\n
  12. Don’t overmix or you will pulverize the popcorn<\/li>\n
  13. Turn out on a baking sheet<\/li>\n
  14. Let cool before putting into plastic zip lock bags<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Actually, I guess I can’t call them that.  Let’s call these things Grandpa Jacks.  See also  “TRAIL MIX” Pop 8-10 cups of popcorn ( 1\/3 C popcorn kernels ) Strain out the old maids and discard them Set pristine popcorn aside Add 1.5 C packed brown sugar to a large mixing bowl Add 3 TBL … Continue reading “Cracker Jacks”<\/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-19175","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\/19175","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=19175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19180,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19175\/revisions\/19180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}