Caramel Popcorn!!!!

Caramel Popcorn

Ingredients
1 cup Butter
2 cups Brown sugar
1/2 cup Corn syrup
1 teaspoon Salt
1/2 teaspoon Baking soda
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

5 quarts Popped popcorn
Preparation
1 Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (95 degrees C). Place popcorn in a very large bowl.

2 In a medium saucepan over medium heat, melt butter. Stir in brown sugar, corn syrup and salt. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil without stirring 4 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in soda and vanilla. Pour in a thin stream over popcorn, stirring to coat.

3 Place in two large shallow baking dishes and bake in preheated oven, stirring every 15 minutes, for 1 hour. Remove from oven and let cool completely before breaking into pieces.

*****Tip I have never gone for the full hour. I have only done forty five minutes tops. I sometimes only do it to thirty minutes.

Amish-style Pretzels

Yields: About Five pretzels
Preheat oven to 500 degrees

Water-10.5 oz
Yeast, fresh- 0.33 oz or active Dry yeast-.165 oz
Bread flour- 12 oz.
pastry flour- 4 oz.
salt- .1 oz
sugar- .3 oz
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Soda Wash
warm water- 8oz.
Baking soda- 1 oz.
Pretzel salt- your preference on how much
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Mixing:
Straight dough method...mixing it all together with your hands. No mixer...gotta love that:)

Fermentation:
Allow the dough to bench rest for about 30 minutes covered

Makeup:
Measure dough into 5 oz. pieces
Roll dough into a uniform strips 30 inches long
Bend and twist the strip into a pretzel shape.
Dip into the baking soda wash or you can put them on the pan and then brush them with the soda wash.
Place on a pan with parchment paper.
Sprinkle with salt
Bake immediately (without proofing) at 500 degrees oven for 5-10 minutes based on oven and whether or not you are using a convection oven


****Tip make sure you put the tails of the pretzels on the bottom because during baking they like to pull up if you don't. Doing this will help keep the shape.

***Also if you use active Dry yeast allow it to sit in the water for a few minutes to hydrate it.

If I can make this then anyone can.