Whirlpool ET22MM Use & Care Manual page 12

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 sizes. Blanch or scold Pock in recom-
mended container and freeze.
Do not freeze lettuce, celery, carrot strcks, pota-
toes or fresh tomatoes. All will become limp or
mushy Tomatoes will collapse when thawed
Freezing Meats-The
meat you thaw con only
be as good us the meat you freeze. "Drugstore"
wrap in meal-size packages. Flat cuts or potties
should be wrapped rndividually or in layers sepa-
rated by a double thickness of freezer wrap
Make sure store wrappings ore 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
time10to15minutestoallowforadditionalcooking
durtng reheating. Omit seasonrngs and port of the
Itquid. Plan to odd them at reheating time. Pota-
toes should also be added to soup and stew at
heating time. Add crumb and cheese topprngs at
heating time.
Cool as rapidly as possible and freeze at once
Liquid or semi-liquid dishes may be frozen In rec-
ommended conturners with head-space Casser-
oles and other more solid foods may be frozen In
the baking conturner. If you don't wont to leave
your casserole dish in the freezer, lrne it with forI
Bake, cool, freeze, lift out the for package, bog It
and return to freezer
Freezing Baked Goods
-Wrap baked breads
in recommended material. Thaw in wrapprng Un-
baked yeast breads con be frozen after the first
rising Punch down. wrap and freeze.
Bake cookies us usual. Cool and freeze on trays,
then pock In recommended freezer bogs or cor-
tons Unbaked cookres may be dropped, molded
or rolled and frozen on ccokie trays. Store In bog or
carton; bake without thawing. Refrigerator-type
cookies con be wrapped and frozen in roll form.
Thaw only enough to slice when ready to bake.
Fruit pies ore best frozen unbaked Bake without
thawing. Bake pecan and similar pres before
freezing...rich fillings do not freeze sold Cut steam
vents In top crusts when ready to bake