RECIPES
When measuring pop-corn for these recipes a peck is a heaping peck measureful.
1. Buttered Pop-Corn.
Put one pound of best creamery butter into the pop-corn kettle (No. [2004-2]) and set it on the stove. Melt and boil the butter. Considerable steam will rise from it. When that steam has cleared away, which will be in a very short time, the butter is boiled enough. Take the kettle off the fire, set it on top of a barrel, and stir in a handful of salt. Dump two pecks of whole pop-corn into the kettle. Mix it by a motion of stirring and lifting the paddle (No. [2006-1]) up through it. After thoroughly mixing, bag from the kettle or put the corn in a water jacketed buttered corn tank (No. [2019-1]) from which it is sold hot. After a batch or two you can make the proportions to suit your trade. This article should be made fresh and sold retail at five cents for a ½ pound bag holding a pint. Use Knott’s Pop-Corn Mixing Machine and put in four pecks of pop-corn to one pound of butter.
Never sell buttered corn made the day before. It will drive trade away.
2. Sugared Pop-Corn.
This is made in three flavors and put up in seven different styles. It is sold extensively in Philadelphia and that section of the country. It is generally made in three colors and flavors. Chocolate, white with vanilla flavor, and pink with wintergreen flavor. Other flavors may be made with colors to correspond, such as orange, lemon and sassafras. When put into ¼-pound glacine bags to sell for five cents, or when put into gelatine-covered boxes, so the corn will be protected but still visible, you can have it in single flavors or any desired combinations.
Here is the way to make it:
Put in your kettle (No. [2004-2]) on the stove (Stock No. [113]) 25 pounds sugar (12½ quarts), 2½ pounds corn syrup (1¼ quarts), 3 quarts water. Bring to a boil and pour into syrup stock tank (Stock No. [2013-1]). Put in kettle on fire 2 quarts syrup and ½ ounce butter. Boil until it hardens in cold water; set kettle on Mixing Machine; add a little vanilla for flavor. Dump in one peck of whole pop-corn; stir until it separates; add your chocolate or color over the fire and add the flavor after the kettle is set on the stirring stand.