Snow Cream Time!

A tradition in my family since my grandparents were young, and probably before...collecting fresh, clean snow and making ice cream out of it! Fill a large bowl with snow, add sugar to taste, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and enough milk that, once stirred, makes it the consistency of creamy ice cream. The drier the snow, the better the snow cream!

For this first heavy snowfall of the winter, we had a snow cream buffet: Alayna ate hers with caramel, Maddy and Alan opted for chocolate syrup, and Kenna wanted strawberry. Me? After some just plain ole vanilla - which was really good - I made it even better with some chocolate syrup and caramel.

The leftovers are in the freezer. Will be eaten later, when the snow is too dirty (after the kids play all over the yard) or melts down. We only "harvest" our snow from deep drifts that have not been walked on by any creatures, digging down and taking our supply from about halfway down into the drift.

If you have never made snow cream, you are truly missing out on one of nature's winter snacks! You can also just add snow cone syrup (or Kool-Aid) to plain snow, too, to make a slushy.