You don’t have this at your house.  I’m sure of it because I never had it until I became a Clawson. It is the best stinking popcorn around.  It’s not one of those super easy recipes, and you have to have a candy thermometer, but what a better reason to go buy one!  I take every opportunity I can to visit Kitchen Kneads here in Logan, and peruse the aisles of their kitchen fantasy land.  It is lovely.  My last visit………I walked out of there with a new electric pressure cooker, meat/candy thermometer (the kind that can stay poked in your meat and the display is on your kitchen counter), pepper grinder (it’s awesome!) and baby whisk.  It was a very productive visit.  I was Christmas shopping, and I got everything I asked for!  James loves it when I get the presents for him!  Back to popcorn……….you should taste this stuff!  The recipe comes from one of my lovely sister-in-laws (I have 9 of them all together) granny’s cookbook.  Her name was Nona and she was a cook!!  There are quite a few of her recipes that are old standbys at my house.  Actually, I think she was a caterer since some of her recipes are gigantic!

The popcorn is called Yankee Doodle, and I have no idea why.  When I first tried the recipe I had to call Jimmy’s mom to ask a few questions.  The recipe was enormous and I wasn’t quite sure how to go about making something of this magnitude.  James’ mom told me to quarter the batch and I’d do just fine.   Thank you Eileen!  I can’t imagine what would have happened had I tried to do the whole recipe.  I may have even killed myself with all that super hot toffee stuff poured all over the place.  Today though I make a double batch in the biggest, sturdiest pan I’ve got.  Like any candy making have a good pan.  None of these flimsy little pots.  You won’t ever regret making this popcorn, but be prepared for a little hard work.  Call me if you’re in the middle of it, and you’ve got a question.  That’s usually what I do!  Have this out when you have company over and watch it fly!  Popcorn does that to people.