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Freezing Vegetables - Freeze only fresh high-
quality vegetables picked when barely mature.
For best results, freeze no more than 2 to 3 hours
after picking. Wash in cold water, sort and cut into
appropriate srz’es. Blanch or scald. Pack in recom-
mended container and freeze
Do not freeze lettuce, celery. carrot sticks. pota-
toes or fresh tomatoes. All
WII!
become limp or
mushy. Tomatoes WIII collapse when thawed
Freezing Cooked Food-Prepare cooked
foods as you would for the table; shorten cooklng
time10 to 15 minutes to allow for additional cooking
during reheating Omit seasonings and part of the
Irqurd. Plan to add them at reheating time. Pota-
toes should also. be added to soup and stew at
heating time Add crumb and cheese topptngs at
heating trme.
Cool as rapidly as possrble and freeze at once.
Liquid or semr-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, line it with forl.
Bake, cool, freeze, lift out the for package, bag it
and return to freezer.
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 patttes
should be wrapped indrvidually or in layers sepa-
rated by a double thrckness of freezer wrap.
Make sure store wrappings are moisture and va-
por proof. If not, re-wrap meats with one of the
wraps recommended under “Packaging”
Freezing Baked Goods -Wrap baked breads
In recommended material. Thaw In wrapping. Un-
baked yeast breads can be frozen after the ftrst
ristng. 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 cookre trays Store in bag or
carton, bake without thawrng. Refrigerator-type
cookres 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
thawrng. Bake pecan and srmrlar pies before
freezing ..rrch fillings do not freeze solid. Cut steam
vents in top crusts when ready to bake