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 trmel0to15minutestoallowforadditional cooking
after prckrng. Wash in cold water, sort and cut into during reheating. Omit seasonings and part of the
appropriate srzes Blanch or scald Pack In recom- lrqurd. 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 time. Add crumb and cheese topplngs at
toes or fresh tomatoes All WIII become limp or heating trme
mushy Tomatoes will collapse when thawed Cool as rapidly as possible and freeze at once.
Liquid or semi-lrqurd dishes may be frozen In rec-
ommended containers wrth head~spoce 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, line 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
oe 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.
ated 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 cookres may be dropped, molded
or rolled and frozen on cookie trays. Store in bag or
carton, bake without thawing. Refrrgeratorrtype
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 simrlar pies before
freezing.. rich frllrngs do not freeze solid. Cut steam
vents In top crusts when ready to bake |
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