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Paula Deen’s SNOW ICE CREAM
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Just when you thought the Food Network couldn’t possibly offer anything more random than Ellie Krieger’s recycled fast food recipes, behold Paula Deen’s SNOW ICE CREAM.
You see, in this recipe, Paula actually instructs people to go outside, collect snow, pour sweetened condensed milk and vanilla extract over it, and eat it. (Pro tip: avoid the yellow stuff!)
I can MAYBE see wanting to try this recipe if you’re 7 years old, or if you live in Montana where the air is as fresh as Ina Garten’s parsley. But for me in the NYC area, forget about it. Eating snow is about on par with licking a subway pole.
Have you eaten snow ice cream? Is it as nasty as it sounds?
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My mom made snow ice cream once when I was little and it was pretty good from what I can remember. You just have to get the snow right after it fell, not after it’s been grated off the road or anything like that. Ha ha.
We also lived in the country, So I understand you not being too keen on it.
No bad, Ate it here in indiana. makes better shave ice than anything
sounds pretty good, i might try it
In Vermont we do sugar on snow, which is hot maple syrup that gets all chewy when you pour it over snow. People eat it with pickles to cut the sweetness (I always thought that was a little weird). But yeah, Vermont snow is usually a fair bit fresher and more delicious-looking than NYC snow, so I understand your shock and horror.
Here’s one that might be more appetizing than Pauler’s:::
http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/02/what-to-do-with-extra-snow-make-ice-cream-from-snow.html
Now, folks, let us sit back and be entertained by watching Paula Deen profiteer from this concoction.
I’ve done it before. I tried it once when I lived downstate but that didn’t go too well considering I lived in a fairly big city at the time, and it was bad (I was six, give me a break). I tried it this year though now that I live “in the frozen north” and it turned out pretty good…I would have added a little more flavor though. I just left a decent sized bowl on the window ledge (I am in the southeast corner of the dorm on the top floor so stuff really couldn’t contaminate it) and in an hour there was enough to make it–we get A LOT of snow up here…although the levels are pretty low this year (we haven’t even tipped 200 inches yet).
Where on earth do you live? Some magical, frozen land? I must know and make a trek up to a place with real snow (because Texas doesn’t get anything worth writing home about).
Marley,
You are just in the wrong part of Texas, lots of pristine powder up here in the north west, TODAY.
Looks like we may get over a foot if it keeps it up.
and yes. I have had several variations of snow ice cream that I have made in Colorado, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Peanut butter and maple and orange cream are tops.
Wonder how my cute little salsa red Beetle got into that photo? :)
Hey!! Beetle is a star! :)
we used to just add jello powders to snow and it was pretty darned good.
That’s what we did! My mother would put a white sheet out in the front yard. She put all the bowls in the freezer so it didn’t melt so fast! We would do jello and/or sweetened condensed milk! Loved it!
I don’t believe that’s a Powla recipe. There was no butter.
She’s supposed to be from Savannah, Georgia, right? So how does she know about this? Has she ever eaten this herself?
It does snow in the South, just not very often.
What is kind of funny to me is that we all want to drink purified water, with clorine and all kinds of stuff added, but eating snow fallen from the sky is OK?
I don’t. When I was growing up, I drank from a spring, water welling up from the ground dripping into a 500-gallon cistern the Forestry Service had provided, no filters or anything. It was hard water, and it was the best water I’ve ever had. Personally I think tap water tastes flat, but I’ve been spoiled and I know it. There’s another benefit, though. Since that water was so hard, my teeth are in wonderful shape. My dentist couldn’t believe it when he first took X-rays of my teeth; he called them “teeth like bricks”.
If I remember correctly, in this episode Paula is using recipes sent to her by friends and viewers. So she probably didn’t know about this recipe before…
I used to pour orange juice on snow when I was a kid. Mmmm.
Snow ice cream? She’s scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Once on a winter carnival weekend in Michigan, we filled a one gallon juice container with snow, Blue Bols, white rum & Squirt.
The snow was fresh & it made a yummy slush!!
I can picture other versions:
Giada’s would include lemon zest, toasted hazelnuts, and sweetened mascarpone. And she’d insist on calling it a granita.
Ina’s would insist on snow scooped with a Lalique crystal shovel by a purebred virgin from only the most pristine glacier on Greenland. And she would use raw cream from a local dairy and GOOD vanilla. And no mention of the cost. But multiple mentions of how much Jeffrey likes it.
Bobby’s would have an ancho/cayenne rub mixed in and a mango salsa on top.
Sandy would tell you to scrape the inside of your freezer to save money and just pour vodka on it. Then she’d spend $200 on a matching tablescape a third-grader could’ve made with construction paper and safety scissors.
The Neeleys would’ve spent so much time with baby talk and double entendres and proving their love to us the snow would be melted.
Sunny would have you filter the flavorings through Viva towels first.
Hi-larious! You know your stuff.
You’re good, Scruffy! LMAO!
Ratched’s 30-Minute version would probably be a scoop of “yellow” snow…compliments of Isaboo.
Bwahahahahaha!! You crack me up, Scruffy!
Holy cow Scruffy, you ARE watching too much FN!!!
A weekend of being sick didn’t help anything. I attempted to watch some of the weekend morning shows as long as I can tolerate them, call it a masochistic experiment. I didn’t make it too far into any of them. And a place for me to be sarcastic about it like here helps too.
A random observation–I believe either Neely would be tolerable on their own flying solo, but they’re brutally annoying together. You get them separated and they both can hold their own, but the duet schtick wears thin fast.
Alton’s version: he wouldn’t make it. He’d tell you to make your own homemade ice cream instead since it’s just as easy as this garbage. No dumbing it down from him.
Pitch-perfect, Scruffy! :)
“Sandy would tell you to scrape the inside of your freezer to save money and just pour vodka on it.”
BWAAAHAHAAHAA!!!!
This line made me laugh out loud!!
I’ve had this every year when I visit my grandparents. It’s something they did with their kids and now they do it with the grandkids and great-grandkids. And it is delicious.
I’ve had snow cream. We make it every time is snows in the South (which is very little). It’s pretty good, but I wouldn’t use NYC snow either. Ew.
I’m from TN and we’ve gotten more than our fair share of snow lately. The trick to snow cream is to set out a bowl and catch some snow- I’d definitely not get some off the ground as doggie poo snow cream sounds pretty rank. Any concerns about acid rain, etc, you wait until after it’s snowed for about 30-60 minutes, then put out a bowl and follow whatever recipe. It’s really quite good..
Purity makes snow cream available in stores.. it’s close, but ..not quite.
Yeah, I’m from the south, and many years ago, back in the 1970′s, we made snow cream, but I wouldn’t do it now.
So I guess the concensus is that if you don’t live in a city, then there’s a chance that this is a good idea.
I was raised in Alaska and now live in the south. I used to eat snow ice cream when I was little, but I think most of the appeal is in the novelty. And I definitely wouldn’t make it here… Atlanta just has too much smog.
It’s not unheard of in my family. Usually the protocol is to put cups out on the deck railing before/during a snowfall. If the air in the area was polluted, I wouldn’t do that. We do this in a remote area on the Chesapeake Bay.
It’s also sometimes called Amish Ice Cream. I personally love the stuff, but you have to make it from fresh snow, or snow that’s obviously clean. I grew up in Arizona, and my family used to make it all the time with shaved ice.
i’m not that suprised. in the south we eat all kinds of shit which sound nasty to northners. ever heard of chitlins. its chicken intestins. literly tastes like poop if you don’t clean em right
Chitlins are pork intestines.
I had deep fried chicken intestines from a street cart once. The vendor also gave me a cup of vinegar with garlic to dip the guts in.
It was absolutely delicious.
Even the yellow snow Pauler?
During the last big snowstorm here, we found a bottle of grenadine in my friend’s dorm room and we made shirley temple snow cones. It was actually pretty delicious.
I am from the south…grew up with my grandmother making snow cream. ( we never called it snow ICE cream – just snow cream)- is sort of like a really soupy vanilla milkshake – sort of – and you never used snow from the first falling either….
Maybe ol’ Pauler is running out of recipes finally. She is bringing up old late 70′s recipes and touting them as her own.
She DID NOT create ‘Velveeta Fudge’. That one has been around for many many years also – church ladies used to make it when I was little.
My mom would make us snow cream any time we had a decent amount of snow. She would only collect very fresh and clean looking snow. It’s very yummy.
We make it several times a winter but not w/ Paula’s recipe. It’s not as good as homemade ice cream but it’s better than some store brands. Plus it’s fun. :)
My grandma used to make a variation of this for us every year. It’s pretty good, and after a fun day of playing in the snow it was cool to use it to make dessert. We did live in the country, though. I definitely wouldn’t want to eat city snow LOL.
Yeah, in Oklahoma, my gramps would make it every time it snowed. It is delicious, and usually we just scraped the surface snow out in the yard, didn’t set out bowls or anything, but they didn’t have dogs, so we didn’t have to worry about that. That’s one of the great things about living here; nature is still kinda… natural.
My Mom and I always made it growing up, and as others have said, you get it when the snow is freshly-fallen, not when it’s gray and nasty. I did it this year with my almost-3-year old this year during one of our ridiculous snowfalls (I’m in Baltimore) and she got a big kick of it.
I’ve tried this – I needed to amuse a 2 year old – and it’s actually a little stupid, it’s that good.
Actually it’s pretty good. Of course I lived in the mountains of Idaho at the time.
A little late to the party, but when I was little, my mother did this too. No, it doesn’t snow often and usually not much in the South, but from time to time we get a decent snowfall, so you go get the new, fresh snow off the top (obviously not what has dirty or tire tracks in it) and make snow cream. Mayfield Dairy even has an ice cream flavor called “Snow Cream”… and Vienna Coffee Company makes a vanilla-flavored coffee they call “Snow Cream.” It’s not really uncommon at all, as is evidenced by the number of people who are familiar with this recipe or something like it. I love how no matter how many people are like “Yeah, I’ve done that,” there’s always another person right behind them who acts like it’s totally nutso.
Hey…That’s that font again that doesn’t have a question mark right? Only and Exclamation mark?
I’ve had snow ice cream many times, but it’s better if you don’t get the snow from a city. I live not far from Lake Tahoe and that’s usually when we make it, on a trip up there.
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My gram lived in the country when I was a kid, and we did have snow ice cream when we went for christmas. **HOWEVER** my gram would use a big metal bowl sat out on the porch the night before to catch the snow. We would never even consider using snow from the ground. That’s just basic. But it wasn’t bad, it was good in a way that stuff you know you’ll only get every once in awhile, that grams made it just for you, is.
But uh- no way id eat the snow nowadays, yellow or not. Have you SEEN what gets pumped into city air??