We've had our first foray outside in what is a pretty heavy, dry snow. And we spent most of our play time setting up our bowls for snow ice cream and cookie sheet for maple syrup candy and checking on how much they'd gathered.
After taking a nature walk to see our waterfall, visiting our neighbor's inflatable decorations, making snow angels, drawing shapes on my car, writing letters in the snow, and plowing paths with our "lawn mowers," we came inside for lunch. Soon, Mama arrived home with our special ingredient: sweetened condensed milk.
By then, our bowls were full of snow and we made "snow cream," which I'd first heard about on "Little Bear" (which the kids are watching right now as we get ready for the afternoon maple syrup candy and tree trimming marathon). You basically add vanilla to a can of sweetened condensed milk and pour it on a big bowl of snow. Stir and presto! You have something that is the consistency and color of ice cream, and sweeter than anything you can fathom. We all dug in and polished the whole thing off.
And then Sis recalled that there were two more bowls of snow outside! Maybe tomorrow, we'll try recipe #2 or the chocolate ones on the website I got these from.
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Snow Cream
1 gallon or big bowl of clean snow (if you like, you can put the bowl outdoors to collect it as it falls)
1 14-oz can of sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
Mix the ingredients together and eat the snow ice cream. Yummy!
Snow Cream #2
1 gallon or big bowl full of snow
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup cream or milk
Again, just mix the ingredients together. You get the idea.
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