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Black Locust Popcorn

It's popcorn, people. And also flowers.

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JB Douglas
May 28, 2024
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Get snack’d with a bowl of popcorn and fried-up flowers. Black locust blossoms have a flavor reminiscent of sweet corn, and this recipe batters and coats the blooms in sugar. They’re kinda like mini floral funnel cakes tossed into a bowl of salty, buttery popcorn.

“Oh it’s kind of like kettle corn.”
- me, realizing I have just unintentionally reinvinted salty-sweet popcorn

Ingredients*

6-8 sprigs of fresh black locust flowers

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