Have a bowl of popped corn all ready.

Put in a saucepan half a cupful of granulated sugar and 4 tablespoonfuls of water, and place on a hot part of the stove. Boil this until you have a thick syrup that will be hard when tested in cold water.

Put the pan at the back of the stove where the syrup will keep hot but not boil anymore. Pick up pieces of popcorn, one by one, and dip them into the syrup and stick them together, adding more and more of them until you have made a ball. Let these harden in a cold place.

Popcorn Patties

Boil together 1 cup of sugar and 1/2 cupful of molasses, until it is thick and waxy when a few drops are tested in cold water.

Stir into this a quart of popped corn. Have ready a cold buttered plate.

Spoon up heaping spoonfuls of the mixture and drop them in little patties onto the plate. Set in a cold place to harden.