Snow Cream: Ice Cream's Ancestor

Snow Cream: Ice Cream's Ancestor

When we have a big snow, it typically creates the opportunistic combination of having time on your hands and a massive amount of the key ingredient for making snow cream, so why not? Besides being a nostalgic but tasty treat to make with the kids, snow cream is the venerable ancestor of our modern ice cream. No one knows for sure when or where people began dabbling with snow-based desserts. There are records that the Persians made frozen beverag…