These beans are very productive and provide a useful crop for the freezer. It is important they should not be shredded finely for freezing, or the cooked result will be pulpy and tasteless. Only tender young beans without strings should be frozen. Best varieties for freezing : Carter’s Streamline; Carter;s White Monarch
Growing Runner beans will grow in most soils, but need liberal watering as dry soil will cause them to drop their flowers and the pods will not set. The beans should be (more…)
Time can be saved by preparing meat dishes to be frozen, which can be eaten cold or reheated for serving. Pre-cooked joints, steaks and chops are not succesfully frozen, since the outer surface sometimes develops an off-flavour, and reheating will dry out the meat. Cold meat can be frozen in slices with or without sauce. Fried (more…)
Black, red and white currants are all frozen in the same way. They should be stripped from the stem with a fork and washed in ice chilled water, then dried gently. For later use un jam making, pack dry into polythene bags. For a dry sugar pack, use 8 oz sugar to 1 Ib prepared berries, mixing until most of the sugar is dissolved. Use 40 per cent syrup, if a syrup pack is preffered. Blackcurrants are particularly good to freeze as a syrup or as a pureee to use for drinks, puddings and ices, or as a sauce. To serve, thaw at room temperature for 45 minutes. Storage time: 1 year. Boskoop Giant and Wellington are best blackcurrant varieties for freezing.
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A used freezer is often purchased as an introduction to freezing, because it is usually cheap. Many of those sold by shops or food factories are however only conservators, designed to store frozen food, but not to freeze fresh food. Manufacturers have now produced a wide range of small domestic freezers, well designed and at competitive prices, with fair guarantees and an availability of spare parts, so that it is no longer necessary to buy a used freezer when a low price is the determining factor.
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