Ingredients
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- 2½ cup white sugar
- 6 tbsp butter
- 3 tbsp pancake syrup
- 1 cup shelled peanuts, unsalted
- ½ tsp salt
- 16 cup popped popcorn, unpopped seeds removed
Instructions
- In a small saucepan, combine salt, sugar and butter.
- Cook on medium-high heat and stir constantly for about five minutes.
- Then, add pancake syrup and continue to cook.
- If sugar begins to burn, turn down heat and add some cooking oil or additional butter.
- Keep stirring and cooking until mixture becomes sticky and caramelized; approximately 15 minutes.
- Once it has reached the caramelized state, remove from heat and stir in peanuts.
- Let mixture stand for about 5 minutes.
- Then, pour over popped popcorn and mix thoroughly.