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Easy Old-Fashioned Popcorn Balls

By: The Local Palate

Crystal Wilkinson’s shares these old-fashioned popcorn balls in her cookbook, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts (Clarkson Potter, 2024). “These have a taste that reminds me of my childhood. My grandmother would make these sometimes at Christmas. Now I make these for the children in our family.”

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Makes 10 to 12 popcorn balls

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  • Recipes reprinted and adapted with permission from
    Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks by Crystal Wilkinson copyright © 2024. Photographs by Kelly Marshall copyright © 2024. Published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

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