Salty sweet popcorn (for all seasons)

I make this popcorn for rooftop movies I host during the summer, served up in individual brown paper bags. Usually at the end of the night, everyone scrambles for that stray bag to take home with them. To help keep my holiday budget in check this year, I thought I'd give this out to my friends—still in the brown paper bags, closed and tied with a ribbon to dress them up a bit. The popcorn's easy and inexpensive to make, and yet the level of impressiveness is almost disproportionally greater than the time and resources required to achieve such a crowd-pleaser. (These are my favorite kinds of recipes—no matter what the season.)

Oct. 1, 2021, 11:50 a.m.