Pop Corn with Peanut-Butter Butter

    This next recipe comes from a vintage pamphlet which had no date. It is a fold-out entitled Smith Family Treasury of Favorite Pop Corn Recipes. It features "Jolly Time" pop corn. It's probably not easy to create a wide variety of recipes with a product like popcorn. 

    I notice that the Jolly Time folks make some unusual suggestions such as adding popcorn to your barbecue menu: "Bring out your imagination when you bring out the grill. Serve herbed pop corn as a delightful and different accompaniment to ribs, chicken and hamburgers." Delightful and different indeed! 

    Of course, there are your stand-bys like "baked caramel corn" and "pop corn balls", but also there are recipes like "pop corn with bouillon butter" and "pop corn with chicken-flavored butter". I chose the less bizarre "pop corn with peanut-butter butter". Dig in! 

     Pop Corn With Peanut-Butter Butter 

2 quarts popped Jolly Time Pop Corn 

1 tablespoon peanut butter (creamy or chunky) 

2 tablespoons butter or margarine 

In small saucepan, melt butter or margarine and peanut butter until smooth. Pour over popped corn and mix well. Salt to taste. 

    

    This was another successful recipe. The peanut butter wasn't at all overwhelming, probably because there is more butter than peanut butter. This was actually the first time I have ever made popcorn of the non-microwave variety. It was quite fun. I did take the lid off too soon towards the end and had to dodge some hot projectiles! All in all, a thumbs up from me!