Recipe by Daniel Myers

Ingredients

1 cup cream

1 egg

1 Tbsp. sugar

1 tsp. rose water



Method

Separate egg, discarding yolk. Stir egg white in a large bowl. Add cream, sugar, and rose water. Whisk until mixture will not drip out of whisk. Strain to remove whey if necessary. Serve with wafers.

Source [A Proper New Booke of Cookery, C.F. Frere (ed.)]: To make a dyschefull of Snowe. Take a pottell of swete thycke creame and the whytes of eyghte egges, and beate them altogether wyth a spone, then putte them in youre creame and a saucerfull of Rosewater, and a dyshe full of Suger wyth all, then take a stycke and make it cleane, and than cutte it in the ende foure square, and therwith beate all the aforesayde thynges together, and ever as it ryseth take it of and put it into a Collaunder, this done take one apple and set it in the myddes of it, and a thicke bushe of Rosemary, and set it in the myddes of the platter, then cast your Snowe uppon the Rosemarye and fyll your platter therwith. And yf you have wafers caste some in wyth all and thus serve them forthe.

Source [The Good Huswifes Handmaide for the Kitchen]: To make Snowe. Take a quart of thicke creame, and five or sixe whites of Egs, a sawcerfull of Sugar, and a sawcerfull of Rosewater, beate all together, and ever as it riseth take it out with a spoone: then take a loafe of bread, cut away the crust, and set it upright in a platter. Then set a faire great Rosmarie bush in the middest of your bread: then lay your snaow with a spoon upon your Rosemary, + upon your bread, + gilt it.

Source [Das Kuchbuch der Sabina Welserin, V. Armstrong (trans.)]: 55 To make snow. Dilute cream and put it in a pot. And take an eggbeater and stir it thoroughly, until it forms snowy foam on top. And toast a Semmel and lay it in a bowl and sprinkle sugar over it and put the foam on the bread, then it is ready.

Published: January 12, 2005

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