So, my grandmother has quite the recipe collection, and finally compiled and printed up a massive cookbook after my mom and aunt started arguing about who would get the mass of unorganized recipe pages eventually. In the dessert section, amongst some very tasty unhealthy treats, is a short recipe for something called snow cream. I seem to remember asking about it before, and my grandmother went on quite nostalgically about how great it is. Apparently they would make ice cream from snow on the rare occaissions there was some in Arkansas when she was growing up.
Today my mom made a cobbler since we had some extra berries. Of course, cobbler calls out for ice cream, especially when my mom's boyfriend's daughter doesn't touch fruit with a ten foot pole. So out we venture into the fresh snow, looking for a grocery store open at 6pm on Christmas Day. I was hopeful since they've stayed open through holidays and even blizzards in the past, but apparently not so late. But with all the fresh snow, we decided to try snow cream. It is simply wonderful. All it takes is a two eggs, a cup of sugar, a cup of milk and two teaspoons of vanilla mixed in a very large bowl. Then you quickly add enough fresh snow to reach ice cream consistency (the whole bowl full in our case) and eat immediately. It probably helps that we chilled mix and bowl through dinner so they didn't melt the snow on contact. It's very light and fluffy and so quick for the satisfaction. We'll be doing this again.
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I am not sure when I will next be in snow (we had it briefly this week) but I hope to be able to try this out sometime soon. Thanks for the recipe!
It's really quite good. I rather like the snowy texture. Anyways, one recipe fed five people. Matt and I made a half-recipe for ourselves after everyone left and we got more snow and it was just a little too much. I'm really not sure how they managed to collect so much clean snow in Arkansas.
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