Snow Cream

The snow has brought with it many wonderful memories, both past and present.  One of these memories is the making and eating of snow cream.  I remember my grandmother making this for me when I was a young girl, growing up in Tennessee.  It always seemed so magical that she could change that beautiful, crystalline substance, that silently fell from the sky, into something that tasted so sweet and delicious in the bowl.  It seemed only right to share this wintertime right of passage with my children and now with you.

Ingredients:
1 cup of evaporated milk
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
8 cups of fresh snow

Directions:
Mix the evaportated milk, sugar and vanilla together until the sugar dissolves.  Then mix with 8 cups of snow, adding 1 cup of snow at a time.  Mix until you get a thick consistency.