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Freezing Vegetables - Freeze only fresh hrgh-
qualrty vegetables picked when barely mature.
For best results, freeze no more than 2 to 3 hours
after plckrng. Wash In cold water, sort and cut Into
appropriate srzes Blanch or scald Pack in recom-
mended contarner and freeze
Do not freeze lettuce, celery, carrot sticks.
potatoes or fresh tomatoes All WIII become I!mp 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 pattfes
should be wrapped indrvrdually or in layers sepa-
rated by a double thrckness of freezer wrap
Make sure store wrappings are motsture and
vapor proof. If not, re-wrap meats with one of the
wraps recommended under ‘Pockaging:
Freezing Cooked Food-Prepare cooked foods
as you would for the table, shorten cooking time IO
to 15 minutes to allow for additional cooklng dur-
rng reheating Omit seasonrngs and part of the Ilq-
urd Plan to add them at reheating time Potatoes
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 dashes may be frozen In rec-
ommended containers with head-space Cas-
seroles 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 wrth 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
Unbaked yeast breads can be frozen after the
first
rising Punch down, wrap and freeze
Bake cookies as usual Cool and freeze on trays.
then pack In recommended freezer bags or car-
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
freezrng rich fillings do not freeze solrd Cut steam
vents in top crusts when ready to bake
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