Freezing Vegetables - Freeze only fresh hrgh- Freezing Cooked Food - Prepare cooked
quality vegetables picked when barely mature foods as you would for the table; shorten cooking
For best results, freeze no more than 2 to 3 hours tImeI to15 minutes toallow for additional cooking
after pickrng. Wash in cold water, sort and cut into during reheating. Omit seasonings and part of the
appropriate sizes. Blanch or scald. Pack In recom- liquid. Plan to add them at reheatrng time. Pota-
mended container and freeze. toes should also be added to soup and stew at
Do not freeze lettuce, celery, carrot sticks, pota- heating time. Add crumb and cheese topprngs at
toes or fresh tomatoes. All will become IImp or heating time.
mushy. Tomatoes will collapse when thawed Cool as raprdly as possible and freeze at once.
Liquid or semi-liquid dishes may be frozen in rec-
ommended containers with head-space. Casser-
oles and other more solid foods may be frozen In
the baking container. If you don?t want to leave
your casserole dish in the freezer, lrne it with foil.
Bake, cool, freeze, lift out the foil package, bag it
and return to freezer.
Freezing Meats-The meat you thaw can only Freezing Baked Goods-Wrap baked breads
be as good as the meat you freeze. ?Drugstore? in recommended material. Thaw In wrapping. Un-
wrap in meal-size packages. Flat cuts or patties baked yeast breads can be frozen after the first
should be wrapped individually or in layers sepa- rrsrng. Punch down, wrap and freeze.
rated by a double thickness of freezer wrap.
Make sure store wrappings are moisture and va- Bake cookies as usual Cool and freeze on trays,
por proof. If not, re-wrap meats wrth one of the then pack In recommended freezer bags or car-
tons. Unbaked cookres may be dropped. molded
wraps recommended under ?Packaging?. or rolled and frozen on cookie trays Store In bag or
carton, bake without thawing. Refrigerator-type
cookres can be wrapped and frozen in roll form.
Thaw only enough to slice when ready to bake.
Frurt pies are best frozen unbaked. Bake without
thawing. Bake pecan and stmilar pies before
freezing .rrch frllrngs do not freeze solid. Cut steam
vents In top crusts when ready to bake |
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