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Freezing Vegetables
- Freeze only fresh high-
quality vegetables plcked 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 sizes. Blanch or scald. Puck In recom-
mended container and freeze.
Do not freeze lettuce, celery. carrot sticks, poto-
toes or fresh tomatoes All will become llmp or
mushy. Tomatoes WIII 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 putties
should be wrapped individually or in layers sepa-
rated by a double thickness of freezer wrap.
Make sure store wrapplngs are moisture and va-
por proof. If not, re-wrap meats with one of the
wraps recommended under “Packaging”
Freezing Cooked Food
- Prepare cooked
foods as you would for the table: shorten cooking
timel0to15minutestoallowforaddit~onal cooking
during reheating Omit seasonings and part of the
liquid. Plan to add them at reheating time Pota-
toes should also be added to soup and stew at
heating time. Add crumb and cheese toppings at
heating time.
Cool
as rapidly 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, line it with foil
Bake, cool, freeze, lift out the foil package, bug 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
rising. Punch down. wrap and freeze
Bake cookies as usual. Cool and freeze on trays,
then puck in recommended freezer bugs or cur-
tons. Unbuked cookies may be dropped, molded
or rolled and frozen on cookie trays. Store In bug o(
carton; bake wlthout 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...nch fillings do not freeze solid. Cut steam
vents in top crusts when ready to bake.