Kool Aid Popcorn

             

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Makes 8 cups of popcorn

12 cups popped popcorn

½ cup butter

1cup sugar

½ cup Corn syrup

1 Packet kool aid

2-3 drops of food coloring

½ teasp. Baking powder

Pop popcorn. In a sauce pan melt butter, add sugar and corn syrup, and stir frequently.  Bring to a boil; boil three minutes while stirring constantly. Remove from heat and add a kool aid packet of your choice and food coloring.  Mix well.  Then add the baking powder, mix well again,   Pour over popcorn stir until popcorn is well coated.  Then cook either in the microwave or the oven, as below:

Microwave: Dump the well coated popcorn in a paper grocery bag. Microwave on high for 1 minute, and then stir. Microwave another 1 minute, and then stir.  Microwave for 30 seconds, and then stir.  Pour out onto a clean counter or 2 cookie sheets.  Separate popcorn as it cools., then let cool completely. Store popcorn in an air tight container. (this is my favorite way)

Oven: Preheat oven to 225. Place popcorn on two cookie sheets.  Bake for 40 minutes stirring every 10 minutes. You can let it cool completely then break into chunks or, try to break it up before it cools.  Cool completely.  Store popcorn in an air tight container.  To make clean up easier you may want to line your cookie sheets with foil or use silicone baking mats.

Food for Thought:  Right in the palm of your hand you have the wisdom of the ages—more importantly, the words of the prophets, from Old Testament days to President Thomas S. Monson. But if you don’t regularly recharge your cell phone, it is useless, and you feel lost and out of touch. You wouldn’t think of going a single day without charging your battery.

As important as it is to leave home every day with a full charge on your cell phone, it is far more important to be fully charged spiritually. Every time you plug in your phone, use it as a reminder to ask yourself if you have plugged in to the most important source of spiritual power—prayer and scripture study, which will charge you with inspiration through the Holy Ghost (see D&C 11:12–14). It will help you know the mind and will of the Lord to make the small but important daily choices that determine your direction. Many of us immediately stop whatever we are doing to read a text message—should we not place even more importance on messages from the Lord? Neglecting to connect to this power should be unthinkable to us.The Choice Generation, By Randall L. Rid