Freezing Vegetables - Freeze only fresh high- 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 to allow for additional cooking
after picking. Wash in cold water, sort and cut into during reheating Omit seasonrngs and part of the
appropriate sizes. Blanch or scald. Pack In recom- liquid Plan to add them at reheating 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 toppings at
toes or fresh tomatoes All will become limp or heating time
mushy. Tomatoes WIII collapse when thawed. Cool as rapidly as possible and freeze at once.
Liquid or semi-liquid dishes may be frozen In rec-
ommended contarners with head-space Casser-
oles and other more solid foods may be frozen in
the baking contarner If you don?t want to leave
your casserole dish In the freezer, line It with forI
Bake, cool, freeze, lift out the foil package, bag it
and return to freezer.
Freezing Meats-The meat you thaw con 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 pattres baked yeast breads can be frozen after the first
should be wrapped individually or in la?yers sepa- rising. Punch down, wrap and freeze.
rated by a double thickness of freezer wrap. Bake cookies as usual. Cool and freeze on trays,
Make sure store wrappings are moisture and va-
por proof. If not, re-wrap meats with one of the then pack in recommended freezer bags or car-
wraps recommended under ?Packaging? tons. Unbaked cookies may be dropped, molded
or rolled and frozen on cookie trays. Store in bag or
carton, boke without thawing. Refrigerator-type
cookies 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 similar pies before
freezinggrich fillings do not freeze solid Cut steam
vents In top crusts when ready to bake |
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