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Freezing
Vegetables
- Freeze only fresh high-
quality
vegetables
ptcked
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. Pack In recom-
mended
container
and freeze.
Do not freeze lettuce,
celery, carrot sticks, pota-
toes or fresh tomatoes.
All
will
become
limp 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-srze
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 with one of the
wraps recommended
under "Packaging"
Freezing
Cooked
Food - Prepare
cookeg
foods as you would for the table, shorten cooking
tImeI
to15 minutes toallow
for addrtronal
cooking
during reheating
Omrt seasonrngs 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
dashes 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,
bag it
and return to freezer
Freezing
Baked
Goods
-Wrap
baked
breads
in recommended
materral. 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 pack
in recommended
freezer bags or car-
tons. Unbaked
cooktes 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
Frurt pres are best frozen unbaked
Bake without
thawing
Bake pecan
and
similar
pres before
freezing...rtch
frllrngs do not freeze solid. Cut steam
vents rn top crusts when ready to bake.
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