| ||||||||||
 
Dr. Ronald P. Rogers CHIROPRACTOR Support for your body's natural healing capabilities 270-384-5554 Click here for details 
  
Columbia Gas Dept. GAS LEAK or GAS SMELL Contact Numbers 24 hrs/ 365 days 270-384-2006 or 9-1-1 Call before you dig 
Visit ColumbiaMagazine's Directory of Churches Addresses, times, phone numbers and more for churches in Adair County Find Great Stuff in ColumbiaMagazine's Classified Ads Antiques, Help Wanted, Autos, Real Estate, Legal Notices, More... 
|
Chuck Hinman: Snow ice cream Chuck Hinman: Snow ice cream. When fresh snow fell, Chuck's Mom would sometimes make a milk-egg combination to which the flakes were added to produce Snow Ice Cream. The next earlier Chuck Hinman Story: - This house is Santa Claus unfriendly By Chuck Hinman Snow ice cream Someone at our foursome at the evening meal night before last here at Tallgrass Estates brought up the subject of snow ice cream. We were scheduled to receive a real norther' with up to 12 inches of snow! Brrrrrrr! Kids today don't have a clue what you are talking about -- this snow ice cream stuff. Too bad, no one at the table questioned what it was. We all knew! As for me, another memory is born and I can recite it in detail as though it happened yesterday. Here goes.... It's in the middle of winter in Gage County Nebraska in 1932. The Hinman kids. Bob, age 12, Joy Ann, age 5 and myself -- Chuck age 10 are just home from school and barged into the kitchen yelling in unison, "Mom, what is there to eat?" It was the middle of January, and it had begun to snow again in the afternoon adding to the snow-pack already on the frozen tundra. "Well, let's see -- the snow is fresh, how about some snow ice cream?" Mom said in a cheerful voice. "Yeah," we all yelled in chorus! Bob grabbed the dishpan and volunteered to bring in a pan of fresh snow as Mom set about mixing up some familiar "egg-nog type mixture." Of course, living on a farm, we had all the ingredients -- the eggs and milk. Mom even gave us the choice of having plain vanilla or chocolate snow ice cream! We'd scoop in snow until it tasted just right. In a jiffy, we each had a bowl heaped with wonderful snow ice cream. "Don't eat it too fast, or you will get a headache," Mom warned! Oh, what memories as I look out my window here at Tallgrass Estates and see the, unusual for this transplanted Cornhusker, snow drifted on my 3rd floor patio in November, 2006! It made me wish for the makin's for good ol' snow ice cream! Written by Chuck Hinman, 1 December 2006 A note on Chuck Hinman and ice cream by Robert Stone. I added a sentence to Chuck's story because young folk today would have no idea as to whether one poured the egg-nog type mixture onto the snow or whether one stirred the snow flakes into the mixture. I also told him about having snow ice cream in the 1940s and 1950s when I was growing up in the village of Shop Spring, Tennessee, writing: "After reading your story about Snow Ice Cream, I started thinking about how we did it. As I recall Mother made a custard and we filled a glass about half full. Then we added the snow, little by little, stirring until we got the consistency we wanted. It all seemed so natural fifty years ago but thinking back I say, Now just how did we do that? "Nowadays milk is so processed and snow is so contaminated, I'm sure that there is no duplicating the dessert we so looked forward to when the flakes came down." Chuck also wrote about ice cream at Tallgrass Estates where the favorite flavor was Butter Pecan and of his and Connie's adventure visiting friends who invited them to help make ice cream with goat's milk, raw eggs, and strawberry flavoring. "Well, it came time to share in the enjoyment of home made ice cream! Connie and I both begged off with the same excuse, we were still full from dinner! We just couldn't eat another bite! Really!" This story was posted on 2012-12-30 06:31:09
Printable: this page is now automatically formatted for printing.
Have comments or corrections for this story? Use our contact form and let us know. More articles from topic Chuck Hinman - Reminiscences:
Chuck Hinman: This House is Santa Claus Unfriendly Chuck Hinman: Christmas memories from my show biz days Chuck Hinman: Merry Christmas, Mom, from your son, Chuck Chuck Hinman: When Someone You Love Takes Their Life Chuck Hinman: Living With Macular Degeneration Chuck Hinman: IJMA 030: Tuesday - Ironing Day: 1 August 2008 Chuck Hinman: Scared Spitless - a story for Veterans' Day Chuck Hinman: IJMA 122 : Cigarettes In My Life Chuck Hinman: IJMA 118 : Gypsies Are Coming Your Way! Chuck Hinman: IJMA 084 : What Makes Men Cry View even more articles in topic Chuck Hinman - Reminiscences |
 
115 Jamestown St. Columbia, KY. 270-384-2496 
  
   
 Provided by the Adair Co Fiscal Court and the Adair Co. Emergency Mgt. Agency 
|
||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
Quick Links to Popular Features
Looking for a story or picture? Try our Photo Archive or our Stories Archive for all the information that's appeared on ColumbiaMagazine.com. | ||||||||||
|
Contact us: Columbia Magazine and columbiamagazine.com are published by Linda Waggener and Pen Waggener, PO Box 906, Columbia, KY 42728. Please use our contact page, or send questions about technical issues with this site to webmaster@columbiamagazine.com. All logos and trademarks used on this site are property of their respective owners. All comments remain the property and responsibility of their posters, all articles and photos remain the property of their creators, and all the rest is copyright 1995-Present by Columbia Magazine. Privacy policy: use of this site requires no sharing of information. Voluntarily shared information may be published and made available to the public on this site and/or stored electronically. Anonymous submissions will be subject to additional verification. Cookies are not required to use our site. However, if you have cookies enabled in your web browser, some of our advertisers may use cookies for interest-based advertising across multiple domains. For more information about third-party advertising, visit the NAI web privacy site.
| ||||||||||
