Freezlng Vegetables - Freeze only fresh high- Freetlng 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 minutes toallow for additional cooking
after picking. 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 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 will collapse when thawed. Cool as rapidly as possible and freeze at once.
Liquid cf semi-liquid dishes may be frozen in rec-
ommended containers with heed-space. Casser-
oles and other more solid focds may be frozen in
the baking container. If you don?t want to leave
your casserole dish in the freezer, line it with foil.
Bake, cool, freeze, lift out the foil package. bag it
and return to freezer.
Freezlng Meats -The meat you thaw can only Freezlng 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- 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- then pack in recommended freezer,bags or car-
por proof. If not, re-wrap meats with one of the
wraps recommended under ?Packaging?. tons. Unbaked cookies may be dropped, molded
or rolled and frozen on cookie trays. Store in bag or
carton; bake without thawing. Refrigerator-type
cookies can be wrapped and frozen in roll form.
Thaw only enough to slice when ready to bake.
Fruit pies are 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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