Have you ever made snow ice cream?

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I have😒 That was one hell of alot of hand cranking on an antique wood bucket, packing snow and rock salt until the damn thing gave up it's dead. The cramp in my arm negated the wonderment of vanilla ice cream, I can categorically state.

anythingoes477 · M

@Freeranger Snow ice cream is not made in a crank ice cream maker.

Freeranger · M

@anythingoes477 So, packing snow around the tin receptor was.....what then? Are you talking snow cones? That is wholly different.

anythingoes477 · M

@Freeranger Snow ice cream is at least a 100 year old recipe. An egg custard base (vanilla is all I have ever known about).....and then fresh snow is added and added and added to "freeze" the mixture (sort of) into "ice cream". Pretty good stuff.

Freeranger · M

@anythingoes477 That is precisely what the ancient hand crank did. I'm not sure how one would end up with ice cream without agitation by machine. The recipe may be a variant, but I suspcet the process was the same.

anythingoes477 · M

@Freeranger No process. Just make a milk and egg custard.........add snow. DONE.

Freeranger · M

@anythingoes477 so, in your estimation is this actually a snow custard or ice cream to you, because it would seem these two are different...at least to me. I'm not trying to argue....I just can't understand how this could be construed as ice cream unless this was more a bit of license as opposed to real ice cream. Trying to understand it is all.

anythingoes477 · M

@Freeranger Wow. You would think I was telling you about the recipe for rocket fuel. ;-)
Look up the recipe. There are at least 10 of them online.