Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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  16              cups  popped popcorn -- *
  1                cup  sugar
     1/4           cup  brown sugar
     1/4           cup  water
     1/2           cup  light corn syrup
     1/4           cup  butter
     1/2      teaspoon  baking soda
     1/2      teaspoon  anise extract
  1         tablespoon  black food coloring

Preparation:

* 2 tbls of unpopped popcorn will produce 4 cups (or 1 ounce) of popped popcorn. Place popcorn in large buttered baking pan. Put the sugars, water, and corn syrup into a heavy pan over medium heat and stir. After the mix has boiled, scrape sides of pan. Place a candy thermometer in the pan and cook, without further stirring, to 250~. Remove pan from heat and stir in butter, baking soda, anise extract and food coloring. Pour over popcorn, mixing well. Bake, uncovered, for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. When cooled, store in air-tight containers.

Nutritional Information:

111 Calories (kcal); 3g Total Fat; (22% calories from fat); trace Protein; 23g Carbohydrate; 8mg Cholesterol; 82mg Sodium