Apple Betty and Sloppy Joe by Susan Sanvidge

Author:Susan Sanvidge
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780870205170
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Hot cocoa and popcorn in the snow at the cottage. Jean is facing the camera; Susan is pouring cocoa from the beat-up aluminum pitcher into Diane’s cup. The popcorn has already been eaten (it was in that black roaster pan insert on the picnic table).

Put pan on burner to start heating up (medium-high, closer to high). Melt a fullish tablespoon of Crisco, or put in enough vegetable oil to cover the bottom of the pan, a scant ⅛-inch deep. Put three popcorn kernels in the pan. These will pop when the oil is the right temperature. (Susan does this; Dad just knows when it’s right.)

After those three kernels have popped to various obscure spots in your kitchen, put in enough popcorn to cover the bottom of the pan or a little more. Put on that tight-fitting lid and shake from time to time. When the popping stops, it’s done. (Will burn if you wait too long.) Put the popcorn into a bowl. For the next batch, skip the three-kernel thing (you know the pan’s hot) and add more shortening or oil. Let it heat a bit and put in more popcorn.

After you have enough popcorn, take the pan off the burner to cool it, turn the burner to low, and put a decent amount of butter (or margarine) into the pan. Rotate the pan to melt the butter without burning it and let it cool just slightly before putting it on the popcorn, or the popcorn will shrivel. (If you stir the butter with a table knife, it will cool the butter down and then you can use the knife to help distribute the butter in the popcorn.) Toss to mix the butter in and add salt to taste.

*Dad sometimes uses “Baby Rice” white popcorn.—Jean

**A Revereware pan works great. After a few times it will be The Popcorn Pan because it will look too bad to be used for anything else.

McDonald’s . . .

It didn’t take much to get Dad to stop at McDonald’s on the way back from the cottage. Mom appreciated it because she didn’t have to cook supper, and Dad must have enjoyed feeding his whole family for under two dollars! The only hitch was Susie, always ordering her hamburger plain, which made the “fast food” into “not-so-fast food.”—Jean

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