Snow Cream - a Southern delicacy

I'm learning that Southerners and snow have a complex relationship - part fascination, part dread and part unfettered joy. Sometimes all 3 at the same time.

Where I live in North Carolina, we'll get a little snow once or so each winter, and it's now something we look forward to because it usually means a day or two at home and some frolicking in the snow. Now I have another reason to look forward to it - snow cream.

It turns out that when it snows, Southerners make snow cream. They venture outside with a bowl and fill it with snow, bring it inside and drizzle it with vanilla extract and sweetened condensed milk (or evaporated milk and sugar) and then eat it.

What you can do is take about 8 - 10 cups of snow, 1 tablespoon of vanilla and a small can of sweetened, condensed milk and - voilá! Snow Cream!

I've attached a short video about snow cream by the über-talented Michael Fortson. It's short and fun.

Go give it a try - it's fun and delicious.

Enjoy!