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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 prckrng Wash in cold water, sort and c.J intc
appropriate srzes Blanch or scald Pock in recomb
mended contarner and freeze
Do not freeze lettuce, celery, carrot strcks. pota-
toes or fresh tomatoes All WI/I become IImp or
mushy Tomatoes WI// collapse when thawed
Freezing Meats -The
meat you thaw can orl,
be as good as the meat you freeze “Drugstore
wrap in meal-size packages. Flat cuts or IpattIes
should be wrapped rndrvidually or rn layers sepo
rated by a double thickness of freezer wrap
Make sure store wrapprngs are morsture 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
trmel0 to15 minutes toallow for additronal cooking
durrng reheating Omit seasonrngs and part of the
Irqurd. Plan to add them at reheating time. Pota-
toes should also be added to soup and stew at
heating trme. Add crumb and cheese toppings at
heatrng trme.
Cool as raprdly as possible and freeze at once.
Liquid or semr-lrquid dishes may be frozen In ret-
ommended containers with
head-space
Cosser-
ales and other more solid foods may be frozen in
the baking container If you don’t wont to leave
your casserole dash in the freezer, line It with foil
Bake, cool, freeze, lift out the forI 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
rrsing 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 thawing Refrrgerator-type
cookies can be wrapped and frozen In roll form.
Thaw only enough to slice when ready to bake.
Fruit pres are best frozen unbaked. Bake without
thawrng. Bake pecan and srmrlor pies before
freezing .rrch fillrngs do not freeze solid Cut steam
vents in top crusts when ready to bake