Yummy Snow! What to do with our bumper crop of snow – Let’s Eat it for Dessert!

SNOW CREAM (Snow Ice Cream)  Mmmm… We just made this – it’s tasty treat – really good and fun treat!

• 1 cup cream or half & half or milk or evaporated milk(refrigerated) or soy milk
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2-quart bowl filled with clean, compacted snow

Mix cream, sugar and vanilla in a small bowl. Pour cream mixture into bowl of snow, stir until well mixed. Serve immediately.
From Joy of Cooking , 1980 Edition.

Variations: Add chocolate syrup and have chocolate snow cream, mix in almonds or pecans, or top with ice cream toppings!

Worried about eating snow!  From the Baltimore Sun: Food columnist Rob Kasper reports that he has made this recipe for ice cream made with fresh snow and fed it to his sons with no ill effects. Just to be sure, he called the Maryland Department of the Environment, who reported that pollution is exceptionally low in cold weather and the air quality for this weekend is very good.  http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/dining/recipes/bal-snow-food-pg,0,1848118.photogallery

FRUITY SNOW BALLS  Put on shorts and remember Summer time – have a snow ball!

• Cup full of Clean Snow
• Flavored snow ball syrup*

*Syrup options:  If you don’t have ready made flavored syrups use: juice, lemonade, or make you own syrup by mixing dry unsweetened Kool-aid drink mix with 1 cup sugar and 2 –3 cups of water – it will be pretty concentrated use sparingly! – drizzle on snow ball

CHOCOLATE SNOW BALL

• Cup full of Clean Snow
• Chocolate Syrup*

*Syrup options:  If you don’t have ready made Hershey’s liquid syrups you can make some with Nesquick chocolate milk powder mix  just add a couple tablespoons of water to a few spoon full of powder – viola you have chocolate syrup!

SNOWY ORANGE JULIUS

Instead of Ice use Snow!

• 6 oz. frozen orange juice concentrate
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup water
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1/4 cup white granulated sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 2 Cups Packed Snow

1. Combine all ingredients except snow in blender.
2. Blend for about 1-2 minutes, add snow – blend till mixed!

SUGAR ON SNOW RECIPE

• Real Maple Syrup
• Pure white snow

Boil syrup to 255 degrees Fahrenheit. Scoop snow into large bowl or pan. Drizzle hot maple syrup lightly over snow. Use forks to eat the sticky top layer. Follow with a bite of sour pickle or your favorite donut.

When hot maple syrup is drizzled over snow, it results in a remarkably delicious candy-like substance that northern New Englanders crave.  You must be very precise with your drizzle and the temperature of the syrup - too hot a syrup and the snow melts too fast - too cool a syrup and it becomes watery, straining through the snow to the bottom of the pot.  The perfectly heated syrup will form a lace-like pattern across the top of the snow and quickly harden to be gobbled up by eager sugar-eaters. http://www.vtliving.com/maple/sugaronsnow.shtml