SNOW is one of my favorite things. I love winter, and I have missed it during the years we lived in California. We had our first snow in our new house the day after we moved in (mid-October), and it has snowed, and then melted completely, several times since.
It snowed yesterday, however, and it was finally enough that Bryan decided to give the snowblower a try - it worked! Hooray! We will be ready when the big snow comes!
Here is my favorite snow song, from one of my favorite holiday movies:
A couple of weeks ago, my friend paged through an old cookbook she found in an AirBnB. She came upon this recipe:
She wondered if I had ever heard of such a thing, because in doing more research, she found this recipe for Wisconsin Snow Pudding. Despite having grown up in Wisconsin, I had never had this or even heard of it, so of course I asked my personal home economist, my mom, and here's what she had to say:
"I have seen that snow pudding before - always in recipe books - but I've never made it. And I didn't realize it was a 'Wisconsin' thing. I've always thought of it as a kind of wobbly Schaum torte - mostly just sugar and egg whites. I'd probably like it with my sweet tooth! Especially served with raspberries and custard sauce. You should give it a try! It would be a lovely presentation for Christmas. Old cookbooks are so interesting - we can learn so much about people's lives - in and out of the kitchen."
Mom is right! I don't own any kind of decorative mold, so I don't think I can make the Wisconsin recipe - but maybe I could try the one from the old cookbook for a fun project sometime. If you are feeling ambitious and decide to make either recipe, I hope you'll take a picture and share a review!
Please leave a comment to share your own thoughts on snow, or send me an email if you have a suggestion for an item to include on a future day of the advent calendar.
Thanks for joining us for this 2020 Virtual Advent Calendar!
Amanda
Very sweet! And your Dad and I watched White Christmas last night - a perfect start to December. Trivia question: What are the character names of the four main characters in White Christmas (not the actors' names, the characters they play)? The winner gets to make a batch of "Snow Pudding" and eat it all without sharing!!
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