Aunt Caryns Party Mix Food

SWEET PARTY MIX

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). Lightly grease a large roasting pan.
• In a large bowl, mix crispy corn and rice cereal, slivered almonds and toasted, chopped pecans.
• In a medium saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter and mix with dark corn syrup and light brown sugar. Pour the mixture over the crispy corn and rice cereal mixture. Stir and shake to coat all the nuts and cereal.
• Pour the coated mixture into the prepared roasting pan. Stirring approximately every 15 minutes, cook 1 hour in the preheated oven. Cool on wax paper, and store in airtight containers.

AUNT CARYN'S PARTY MIX

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
• Using two 9 x 13-inch pans, divide up the Rice Chex cereal, Corn Chex cereal, Wheat Chex cereal, pretzels, Cheez-It crackers, Cheerios, and peanuts between the two pans.
• Toss the ingredients in each pan to mix well.
• In a small saucepan, melt the margarine and butter.
• Add the Worcestershire sauce, season salt, and garlic powder.
• Stir until homogeneous in appearance.
• Spoon some of the sauce between the two pans.
• Toss the cereal to coat evenly.
• Always restir your sauce before spooning over the cereal as it will begin to separate.
• Repeat the spooning/tossing process until all of the sauce has been evenly distributed over the cereal mixture in both pans.
• Bake the cereal mixture for 1 hour, tossing the mixture every 10 to 15 minutes.
• Before removing the pans from the oven, make sure you don't have any'wet' cereal remaining.
• If this is the case, continue baking for several minutes until the cereal mixture is completely dried.
• Cool.
• Store in a sealed container or in gallon freezer bags.