[Sca-cooks] baked snow?

[kattratt]

I knew that I was saving this for a reason...
Ok Hi everyone.... I thought I would reply here....
In reality I read the Booke of Good Cookery's Website version of the 
recipe...
Pasted here...

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

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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.

and I missed the quart of cream part.... I got the egg whites obviously 
but missed the cream.  Sigh Goes to show what happens when you try and 
force a recipe on an existing one... DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!
I so wanted that to be meringue!!!!!

Ok so I goofed, it happens... and ya wanna hear something funny...?  I 
asked about this recipe about 2 years ago and I think we decided that it 
was period meringue.  
Nuts
Nichola

Since I deleted all of those emails rather quickly can anyone give me 
the nutshell version?  Did we decide if it was period or not?

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Nichola commented:
>
>> With a twist.... "Snow" is period... If You bake it I think you are
>> breaking period.. but I can not be sure...
>
> Huh? "Baked snow"? The snow that I'm thinking of, which we in fact 
> discussed here recently, is egg whites and cream and sugar and perhaps 
> a few other things. It has to be kept cool or it melts into a runny 
> mess. It's hard enough to handle at room temperature, without baking 
> it. Or are you speaking of something else?
>
> Stefan, the perplexed
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