{"id":1701,"date":"2015-03-26T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2015-05-02T12:45:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T16:45:04","slug":"snow-cream-recipe-winter-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/snow-cream-recipe-winter-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Cream, or The Winter Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Making snow cream outdoors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s an old recipe: Mix cream, sugar and flavouring with fresh snow and stir it up to make a yummy dessert.<\/p>\n

We have lots of the main ingredient since\u00a0Snowmageddon hit Nova Scotia on March 18. It tickles me pink to have\u00a0some of the stuff in the freezer, waiting for the\u00a0day when I can give summer visitors a literal taste of this winter.<\/p>\n

Today, before rain turns the fluffy snow\u00a0to slush, I made a couple of batches. I chose a drifted snowbank on the shady side of the house and\u00a0removed\u00a0the top crust that has formed since last week’s big snowfall in order to get at the fine-grained\u00a0powder beneath. I filled a big bowl with it. I had already combined\u00a0the other ingredients, and stayed\u00a0outdoors to mix them\u00a0with the snow so it would stay cold.<\/p>\n

For freezing, I made a light fluffy product, not creamy like ice cream. In a \u00a0previous batch, I used more cream and less snow. It was\u00a0more ice cream-like at the time, but after being in the freezer it froze hard and wasn’t very scoopable. \u00a0It would be fine if you eat it right away. I think we’ll be very happy to eat fluffy sweet snow in the heat of July. If we really want ice cream, we can always buy some!<\/p>\n

Recipe below photos.<\/strong><\/p>\n