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Max.-Storage
Period
Method
Remarks
Carrots
12 months
Use small ones, Prepare by scraping
Blanch for 3-4 mins.
top and tail.
Cauliflower
12 months
Break up the florets and wash.
Blanch for 3mins. Add
lemon juice to wáter to *
improve whiteness.
Spinach
12 months
Wash thoroughly.
Blanch a few leaves at a time,
remove thicker veins.Chop if liked.
for 2 mins.
Sprouts
12 months
Use only small ones.
Blanch for 3mins,- medium
Remove outer leaves.
1'/e mins.- small.
Root crops
12 months
The younger the better.
Blanch for 3-5 mins.
Peel and slice or freeze whole.
FRUIT
Apples
9-12 months
Freeze either of two ways:
Freeze in small quantities
as puree-stew with little water,
Pack in plastic containers,
beat to smooth pulp, sweeten to taste,
leaving 1.5cm ('/ in.)
blanch for two mins., drain and cool.
headroom
Pack tightly in layers with a little dry sugar
sprinkled between, if so desired;
or soak in slightly salted water for ten
minutes, dry and freeze.
Apricots
10-12 months
Preferably remove stones, but leave
Pack in plastic containers
skins on. Pack in syrup 200-400g
leaving 1.25-2.5cm ('/2-1іп.)
('/2-16.) sugar to 550ml (1 pint) of
headroom
water, making sure fruit is covered.
Cherries
12 months
ditto
ditto
Damsons
12 months
ditto
ditto
Plums
9 months
ditto
ditto
Gooseberries
#2 months
ditto
ditto
Blackberries
^ -«—12 months
Either pack in syrup as above, or coat
ditto
with caster sugar and pack in plastic
containers. Also may be frozen open
then pack in containers.
Currants
12 months
ditto
ditto
Raspberries
12 months
ditto
ditto
Strawberries
12 months
ditto
ditto
Peaches
10 months
Cover with boiling water for 1 minute
keep fruit submerged in
then cool by dipping into cold and peel
syrup, place crumpled
carefully. Cut into halves, removing
greaseproof paper on top, so
stone. Use syrup method of packing
there is no room between the
and freezing.
surface of the liquid and the
lid.
DAIRY PRODUCTS
Eggs whole
6 months
Pack leaving headspace, beat slightly.
Do not freeze eggs in their
shells as they will crack.
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