Way back in the day my grandfather made some ice cream tasting substance out of snow. As a little kid I found this all kinds of amazing. I hadn’t thought about it in a while so I decided to look up the recipe and maybe if and when it snows here I might give it a shot. Here are the directions I found on the interwebs.
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- large bowl of snow (about 3 quarts)
And what do you do with all this…
Blend milk, sugar and vanilla. Stir in enough snow to make snow cream to an ice cream consistency.
Thats it.
Feel free to add some chocolate syrup or fruit to make different flavors.
Some important items to note:
You must 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. Little known fact about the outdoors…gross things happen out there.
This info was pulled from Sandy’s Old-time Snow Cream Recipe
December 20th, 2007
Score one for the transient Outdoorzies out there… or maybe score one for the physicists not-so-cool image… no matter. A guy who spends his Summers guiding backpacking trips and surfing, and his Winters ski-bumming has formed a theory on the universe that the scientific community is standing up and taking a look at. The Telegraph reported this week that Garrett Lisi has created a theory of the universe that could actually explain some things to physicists. Lisi has a doctorate but isn’t affiliated with any universities… currently. My guess is he’ll be picked up pretty quickly after this.
The E8 Theory… (don’t stare too long, it will suck you in… seriously)
From the Telegraph…
” Lisi’s inspiration lies in the most elegant and intricate shape known to mathematics, called E8 - a complex, eight-dimensional mathematical pattern with 248 points first found in 1887, but only fully understood by mathematicians this year after workings, that, if written out in tiny print, would cover an area the size of Manhattan.”
I’m not even going to pretent like I understand… so I’ll just step away and say… “Cool Brah.”
December 20th, 2007
