Flashback Friday: Revisiting a recipe from long ago
A snow day means pure excitement, right? I'd say any day is perfect for a school snow day, unless it's the day of a much anticipated class party. You know, the grade school class parties you had on the last day before a long break or at the end of the quarter. Snow days were not as welcome on those special days.
More often than not my mom made popcorn balls with us for our class parties. We'd make red and green popcorn balls for Christmas parties, pink for Valentine's Day and orange for Thanksgiving. Sometimes we would just pick our favorite color and go from there. It was pretty cool to have your very own popcorn ball in a fun color.
Oddly enough, I remember making these on the kitchen floor. We weren't quite tall enough to work at the counter and chairs had this funny tendency to tip over if wiggly children were atop. The air-popper came down to floor level and we watched the kernels pop with more delight and excitement than you can imagine. Gooey marshmallows magically puffed and then changed color when the gelatin was added. After thoroughly spreading butter all over our hands we shaped sticky palm-fulls into balls, just like snow balls. Each was then wrapped in plastic wrap so every kid in the class could have one.
