#2664 - Puffed Rice Balls

(by Aunt Faye [Herman] Minier)

1/2 cup Kayro corn syrup
1/2 cup King syrup molasses
1/2 cup white sugar
2 TBSP butter
2/3 of small box Quaker puffed rice cereal
2 TBSP apple cider vinegar

Place puffed rice in a glass bowl. In a saucepan add corn syrup. molasses, white sugar and cider vinegar--cook/stir over medium heat until boiling. Once boiling, cook/stir until temperature of mixture reaches 300 degrees (hard crack stage). Remove from heat--add butter--stir until melted and smooth. Cool mixture slightly (until it stops bubbling). Pour the hot mixture over the puffed rice--stir well. Cool slightly, then shape the mixture into balls and place them in a buttered cake pan. Cool completely.