#2121 - Brown Sugar Popcorn Balls

(by Shirley McNevich)

1/2 cup butter (NO substitutes)
2 cups Domino's dark brown sugar (packed)
1 cup Kayro lite corn syrup
1 - 14oz. can Eagle condensed milk (NOT evaporated)
1 tsp. vanilla
10 quarts plain popped popcorn (any unpopped kernels removed)

Place popped popcorn in a large bowl--set aside. In a saucepan over medium heat add butter, brown sugar and lite corn syrup--cook/stir until boiling, then add condensed milk--stir. Turn heat to simmer--cook/stir to soft ball stage (234-238 degrees on a candy thermometer). Remove from heat--add vanilla and stir. Pour hot mixture over popcorn--stir with a wooden spoon to coat. Butter your hands, then take out a handful of the popcorn mixture at a time and form into balls. Set each formed ball on saran wrap covered cookie sheets to cool. Wrap in colored cellophane once they have cooled.