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Snowballs

Clan MacIntyre occupied lands for almost six centuries at Glen Noe, Loch Etive until shortly after 1800. The tenure by which they held these lands, from Clan Campbell of Glenorchy (afterwards of Breadalbane), was an annual payment in summer of a snowball and a white fatted calf.

The snowball could easily be secured at the back of Cruachan (a mountain near Loch Awe). The MacIntyres always kept a number of white cattle, so a white calf was no problem. Shortly after the turn of the century, the rental currency was converted to money.

Members of this branch of Clan MacIntyre, known for centuries as the principal family of Clan MacIntyre, then emigrated to America.

Snowballs

1/2 cup butter
1 cup chopped dates
1 cup white sugar (scant)
1 egg

Cook these together for 10 minutes. Add:
2 cups Rice Krispies
1/2 cup walnuts
1 tsp vanilla

Drop into coconut and roll in balls. Set in fridge.

Crumbly Snowballs

1 1/2 cup icing sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 tsp almond flavouring
1 1/2 cup dessicated coconut
Graham cracker crumbs
Marshino cherries

Cream icing sugar and butter with almond flavouring. Roll cherry in 1 tsp. of mixture. Then roll in graham cracker crumbs. Let set. Store in tupperware dish.

Deep Fried Snowballs

2 1/2 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 Tbsp shortening
Flavouring (vanilla, lemon or almond)
1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/4 tsp salt

Cream shortening. Add sugar, beaten eggs, flavouring and milk. Add flour sifted with baking powder and salt. Beat well, and drop by teaspoons onto boiling fat and fry a golden brown. Drain on unglazed paper and roll in powdered sugar before allowing to cool.

Snowball Cake

1 1/2 Tbsp unflavoured gelatin
4 Tbsp cold water
1 cup pineapple juice, heated (or orange juice)
dash of salt
1 cup sugar
1 cup pineapple juice (or orange juice)
Juice of 1 lemon
3 pkg. dream whip
1 cooked angel food cake
pineapple slices and coconut (or can mandarin orange segments)

Tear cake into chunks. Soften gelatin in cold water and blend with heated juice.

Add sugar, salt and juices. Set until like thickened egg whites.

Whip 2 pkgs. of dream whip and fold into gelatin mixture.

Line a large bowl (8 or 9 cup capacity) with strips of waxed paper. Put a layer of cake on the bottom, then spoon gelatin to cover. Repeat until all is used, making sure last layer is gelatin. Cover bowl with plate pressing down to compress mixture.

Set in fridge overnight. Turn out on plate and remove waxed paper. Frost with 1 pkg. dream whip and decorate with pineapple slices and coconut (or orange segments).

Note: I cut up fruit into fairly small pieces, and then place them on the cake in the form of the pineapple slice or orange segment. This just makes it easier when you are cutting wedges of the cake as the fruit is firm and harder to cut than the cake.

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