Freezing Baked Goods-Wrap baked breads

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 -Themeat 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-spaceCosser- 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

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