To make Snow

PERIOD: England, 17th century | SOURCE: Archimagirus Anglo-Gallicus; Or, Excellent & Approved Receipts and Experiments in Cookery, 1658 | CLASS: Authentic

DESCRIPTION: A dish of cream that resembles a tree blanketed with snow

To make Snow.

Take a quart of cream not too thick, beat it with a birchen rod with whites of Eggs in it, take off the snow as it rises till you have enough of it for a dish, boil some cream for the bottom, set a penny loaf in the bottom of it with a rosemarie sprig set in the midst, strow your snow at the top of it.