Sunday, March 1, 2009
Restaurants Who needs liquid nitrogen? We've got snow!
Posted by Cliff Bostock @cliffbostock on Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:48 PM
Yay! Snow! This is the view from our front porch. It never snows that I don't recall eating snow cream when I was a kid. But that memory is also accompanied by one when I was eating the stuff straight-up out of my mittens while sitting on the side of the road outside our house in Bryn Athyn, Pa.
Someone drove up beside me, chains rattling on his tires. He rolled down his window and barked, "Hey! Quit eating that stuff! Don't you know it's radioactive? Do you wanna die from eating snow?"
That pretty much ruined the consumption of snow in any form for me forever. I did look up recipes for snow cream this morning and found one that included every caution except the one against radioactivity:
Note: ALWAYS - ALWAYS make sure the snow is clean. It takes at least one to two hours for snow to clean the pollutants from the air, then use only snow that has fallen after that first cleansing snow. It also goes without saying (but I will anyway), to make sure you do not collect the snow where animals and birds eat (or do other things). Cleanliness first. Stress that with the kids, because this is a treat even the younger ones can make for the whole family.
Here's a trio of young chefs killing time on a wintry day by developing snow cream recipes.
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