½ cup - Molasses
½ cup - Corn syrup
1 ½ cubes (¾ cup) - Butter
Salt
8 cups - Popped popcorn (measure after popping)
Red food coloring (paste food coloring from craft stores works well)
Cook
molasses with corn syrup until thermometer reaches hard crack stage,
about 270 degrees. Add a bit of red food color paste to the corn syrup
mixture and tint to desired color. Stir in butter and salt.
Have the popcorn in a bowl. Slowly stir in the mixture with a wooden spoon. Coat all the popcorn.
Butter
your hands lightly and shape the popcorn into balls. Make them the size
you want. Set them on wax paper and let them harden. Wrap the ones you
don't eat with wax paper.