SNOW!

[kickaha]

When I was a kid, we used to make snow ice cream - go out and gather up a big bowl of freshly fallen snow, add vanilla, sugar and canned milk (fresh milk doesn't work - not creamy enough), stir, and eat quickly. It invariably ended up in a brain freeze, but it's always been a cherished memory, especially after I moved to NC. (Ice doesn't work so well.)

I am sitting here eating a bowl of said snow ice cream, after a batch was placed in Tupperware in the freezer this past winter. It didn't pick up any of the 'freezer taste' like some things do.

Snow ice cream! In summer!

This is too damned cool. :D

Comments

[emschwar.livejournal.com]

We used to make snow cream! We used regular milk though. That stuff was goooood.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

We tried regular milk a couple of times, but it never came out creamy enough - use canned milk, and it's just about like standard ice cream. :)

Okay, so this batch is more like granita, now that it's frozen up a bit, and I had to shred it with a fork to get it smaller bits... oops. :D

Still! Snow ice cream! In summer!

Exclamation point!

[theevilhalf.livejournal.com]

Heh. We made homemade ice cream tonight. Raspberry, which the girls gobbled down till brain freeze hit.

I'll have to try making snow cream this coming winter. Do you use evaporated or sweetened condensed milk?

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Evaporated. Condensed is just too thick, but if cut with regular milk, might add a nice caramelized flavor, and carry the sugar better.

We used to make hand-cranked raspberry ice cream every July 4th at my grandparents' house with raspberries from their thicket by the creek. *sigh* I miss that. :}

[theevilhalf.livejournal.com]

While our ice cream maker isn't a hand cranked model, we've got raspberry (wineberry actually, a little more tart than its sibling) and blackberry bushes in our yard. I don't believe they've bloomed yet so I can't judge when we'll get berries. Hopefully, we'll have ripe berries when we throw our Porch Party once the porch is rebuilt. We're planning on serving desserts and prosecco, with homemade ice cream and sorbet being the main attraction. I'll give y'all a call when either event comes to fruition.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

You're on. :D