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Freezing Vegetables
- Freeze only fresh hrgh-
quality vegetables picked when barely mature
For best results, freeze no more than 2 to 3 hours
after pickrng. Wash in cold water, sort and cut into
appropriate sizes. Blanch or scald. Pack In recom-
mended container and freeze.
Do not freeze lettuce, celery, carrot sticks, pota-
toes or fresh tomatoes. All will become IImp or
mushy. Tomatoes will collapse when thawed
Freezing Meats-The
meat you thaw can only
be as good as the meat you freeze. “Drugstore”
wrap in meal-size packages. Flat cuts or patties
should be wrapped individually or in layers sepa-
rated by a double thickness of freezer wrap.
Make sure store wrappings are moisture and va-
por proof. If not, re-wrap meats wrth one of the
wraps recommended under “Packaging”.
Freezing Cooked Food
- Prepare cooked
foods as you would for the table; shorten cooking
tImeI to15 minutes toallow for additional cooking
during reheating. Omit seasonings and part of the
liquid. Plan to add them at reheatrng time. Pota-
toes should also be added to soup and stew at
heating time. Add crumb and cheese topprngs at
heating time.
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 Baked Goods-Wrap
baked breads
in recommended material. Thaw In wrapping. Un-
baked yeast breads can be frozen after the first
rrsrng. Punch down, wrap and freeze.
Bake cookies as usual Cool and freeze on trays,
then pack In recommended freezer bags or car-
tons. Unbaked cookres may be dropped. molded
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