Popcorn Is Poppin!
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Popcorn From the Start
Popcorn Poppin' On The Apricot Tree!
"I looked out the window and
What did I see?
Popcorn Poppin' on the Apricot Tree
Spring had brought me such a nice surprise,
Popcorn Poppin' right before my eyes.
I could take a handful and make a treat
A Popcorn ball that would smell so sweet
It wasn't really so,
But, it seemed to me
Popcorn Poppin' on the Apricot Tree!!"
I never pop popcorn that I don't recall that little song - as a first grade teacher, I taught it to my class every year. It was also a song little kids sang at primary classes in our church. In any case, it's a cheery, happy song, we could all use today.
Popcorn Poppin' on the stove!
If you don't pop popcorn from scratch on the stove, at least some of the time, you're missing a lot of fun. Fun? What's that? Forget Fannie Mae for one night, and munch on the crunch of freshly popped popcorn.
Very interesting information on popcorn, here. Don't miss that great read!!
The sharp, salty smell; the clinking, tinny sound as the kernels hit the lid, and the fun of shakin' the pan to keep the kernels moving so they don't burn.
Put the hot air popper away tonight, dig out the big ol skillet or deep pan, and gather your friends and the kids...just remember to shake that pan, if it burns, you won't get rid of the smell for days.
I can still smell the popcorn we burned in 1988. ahem.
Let's begin!
Buy your bag of kernels; Jolly Time is a good brand, as is Orville Redenbacher.
Procedure:
- Coat the bottom of a large 3 - 4 quart heavy bottom pan with about 2 - 3 tablespoons of oil, butter flavored if you can find it is great. Here in America, we have popcorn oil - even flavored ones!
- Add 1/2 cup popcorn kernels, enough to cover the bottom of the pan no more than 2 layers deep.
- Cover pan. A no brainer step, but if you want lots of fun, uncover it for just a second or two, looking away to protect your eyes! Duck for cover...they fly everywhere...so fun.
- Turn stovetop burner to medium or medium-high heat. - no higher be patient for the first few "plop!" sounds. Burnt corn is horrid, smell and taste.
- Let kernels cook, shaking occasionally to prevent burning. Shaking is quite an art. If you don't move your hips to the beat of the corn, you have no soul.
- When the popping slows to about 3 or 4 seconds between pops, remove pan from burner...QUICK!!
- Allow to cool a minute and then remove lid - there will be an occasional stubborn pop or two...pour into a bowl and add more salt, more butter, don't count the calories.
- If you want flavored - I prefer the plain most of the time, there are many spices to experiment with...chili powder, cayenne, parmesan cheese, onion, (blyck) etc.
Popping popcorn from the raw kernel is a little bit of trouble, a little messy but worth it! You might need to practice to get the oil and popcorn kernel ratio to perfection, that's all part of the fun. What's a little extra grease among friends?
gotta go, I'm cravin' popcorn!!
"I looked out the window and what did I see...."
Popcorn on..the Apricot Tree
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Part of the problem i ran into in europe was also that popping corn was not readily available. Also, in Spain they used Butane stoves, which burn hotter than Propane. And of course they want to use olive oil, and somehow that detracts from the taste!
But we found a way to get popping corn on base, and I would often invite people over to watch a soccer (Futbol) game and we'd make plenty of pop corn. My Euorpean guests always wanted individual little bowl, and I noticed they would eat one kernal at a time, unlike my American friends, who took great gobs at a time!
I guess it's like Vegemite from Australia and the Americans who wonder what all the fuss is about? Well, if you lived in OZ and ate Vegemite you'd know! Just as if you were born and dwelled in Russia you'd understand borscht! Since I love to try new things I guess i am just up for seeing the real joy in tasting something new, even if it is not a food with which I am familiar.
Fried monkey, anyone?
I love popcorn. My mother said she craved it when she was pregnant with me.
For crying out loud... cookies, peanut butter, even the celery with stuff smeared all over it, and now... this danged popcorn! How can I keep losing weight around here? Pardon me, the microwave is beeping. I had to wait 3-1/2 minutes 'til the Real Theatre with Extra Butter was ready...
Susan, it's a good spicy munchy, good for a crowd! enjoy!
Hi Tom, -- walking cures a few bad moments in the kitchen munching and cheating. =) unless you're like me, and the walk is into the kitchen to get more!
Hi Moonlake, I craved Brach's Malted Milk Balls when I was pg, double dipped if I could get them. You might very well have gotten your desire for popcorn from her -- tell her it's her fault, you can probably get by with it. LOL
Hi Chef Jeff...that's really interesting; our eating patterns and habits are sure related to our location.. and you wouldn't think that the way people eat popcorn would be that different.
Popcorn is eaten by the fistfulls in America!! specially at games. it's all over the floor, then!! I wouldn't want the olive oil on it either. Not even the light version, I don't think.
My memories of culinary treats in Italy from the American genre are that it was nearly impossible to get a good hamburger anywhere in Europe unless you went to McDonald's or Burger King in one of the biggest cities. No burgers almost anywhere else ... of course I avoided obvious American dives like the hotels and clubs where they'd be everywhere.
Also, there were no jars of peanut butter in the stores around town. But, you could find tiny little jars of swirled peanut butter and jam, chocolate, or jelly... right next to the baby food. They were about the size of a Gerber's Baby Food jar and cost about $4 each. Not enough gooo in those to make one normal sized American peanut butter sandwich.
And their candy bars cost about 4 times what a glass of red wine cost at the corner cafe. Chocolate bars were a real luxury. Ice cream was every where. You'd think that they invented it (they did).
BTW, they also invented the light bulb, the motion picture camera and projector, radio, telegraph, telephone, and the record player and sound recorder. Ahem.
Yes they did. But that's another story.
So they didn't invent peanut butter, evidently, and that's why it cost more than chocolate or wine, and such. And why you couldn't find it and when you did it was on the bottom shelf under the baby food.
But, this was supposed to be about popcorn. I forgot. They did have plenty of popcorn, on all the side street markets and bazaars, in all the movies and even in the bars. So, why couldn't they give us just one medium sized jar of Jiffy?
Great pop corn preparation tips, but for some reason the picture of the girl dancing with the pop corn bag on makes me want to go to the movies. Great hub :).
Marisue, this is great information for popping corn the right way. Down with the stuff in the microwave bag! Down with air poppers! Up with grease! There's nothing like it. Except maybe Jiffy Pop, so long as you don't burn it, and it's so easy to burn it!
Loved the apricot tree song. I never heard it before, so I did some scouting around. This one cracked me up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyY1hbyhKj8&fea
Many thanks for linking to my Hub!
You're so welcome!! and thank you, the song was sooo cute....I should include it in the hub!!
great poppin hub !! wow I never learnt that song and i never learnt to make popcorn the ol fashioned way.. noo.. i wish i had though it sounds like so much funnnnn.. your hubs are always so bright and cheerful.. cheers !!
My dad was the best homemade pop corn popper IN THE WORLD> He had the right moves and never burnt a kernel. It was his mission, to make them all eatable!! =)) What a fun guy he was. I miss him soooo much!
NO BURNED KERNALS?!! Growing up, my 3 sisters & I became true popcorn connoisseurs. We had a special Revere Ware copper bottom pan for popcorn. The pan was properly (nay, artistically) blackened. We all used to squabble, sometimes physically, for the PROPERLY BURNED kernals. As an adult, O.K. older kid, if you scrub the bottom of my popcorn pan, prepare for a 5 min. lecture on purpose & technique of the burn. DON'T USE CANOLA OIL!
Hi oregon Boy, sounds like you know your popcorn!! Thanks for reading and come back soon! and bring the popcorn!
SusanBonfiglio 3 years ago
Sounds wonderful!. I may have to put away my Orville Redenbacher Microwave Popcorn. I can smell it from here!
Thanks for this.