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 time10 to15 mrnutes to allow for additional cooking
after pickrng. Wash in cold water. sort and cut into during reheating, Omit seasonings and port of the
appropriate sizes. Blanch or scald. Pock in recom liquid. Plan to odd 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 ttme. Add crumb and cheese toppings at
toes or fresh tomatoes. All will become limp or heating time.
mushy Tomatoes will collapse when thawed. Cool as rapidly OS 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 wont to leave
your casserole dash in the freezer, line it with foil
Bake, cool, freeze, lift out the for package. bog 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 potties baked yeast breads con be frozen after the first
should be wrapped individually or in layers 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 ore moisture and va- then pock in recommended freezer bogs or car-
por proof. If not, re-wrap meats wrth one of the tons. Unbaked cookies may be dropped, molded
wraps recommended under ?Packaging?.
or rolled and frozen on cookie trays. Store In bog or
carton; bake without thawrng Refrigerator-type
cookies con be wrapped and frozen in roll form.
Thaw only enough to slice when ready to bake
Fruit pies ore best frozen unbaked. Bake without
thawing. Bake pecan and similar pies before
freezing...rich fillings do not freeze solid. Cut steam
vents in top crusts when ready to bake. |
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