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Re: freezing v. canning

On Mon 10 Aug, Allan Day wrote:
> On Mon 10 Aug, M. Mathena wrote:
> 
> > > Please tell me why you can your tomatoes etc. We used to bottle lots,
> > > never got into canning over here because of costs, but now we have two
> > > freezers and put everything in there, it's much more convenient than
> > > bottling
> > > Allan
> > Allan,(Spelling!)
> >  I should have been more specific, I can tomatoe juice to use in 
> > cooking, it is fairly easy to do, and I do not have much freezer 
> > space, and we seem to like the canned juice to the frozen kind. I wash 
> > and cut the tomatoes, cook them for a good while, the longer they cook 
> > the thicker the juice, run the tomatoe pulp thru a colonder, to 
> > separate the skins and seeds from the juice, bring the juice to a 
> > rolling boil, pour juice in canning jars and seal. That is all.       
> > Do you freeze your tomatoes in aluminum foil? I read that on the 
> > veggie list. Also, has anyone had luck in freezing corn on the cob, I 
> > have tried it, and I always have corn that tastes like the cob, also 
> > the texture is soft, with all the water that is absorbed. I cut the 
> > corn off of the cob and freeze it, which turns out very tasty.
> > Monica
> > 
> >
> Thanks for reply.
> We freeze lots of tomatoes. we just put the raw small tomatoes on a
> plastic sheet on a tray, into the freezer, when frozen loose-packed into
> bags with a tie, that's it! Any large tomatoes we sometimes cut in half
> before freezing. Damaged fruit goes through the juicer and is then
> frozen , the leftovers are rubbed thtough a sieve and frozen as puree.
> 
> Regarding the corn, we freeze both ways depending on the degree of
> pollination on the cob. The expert (other half Pam sends her regards)
> says you could be overdoing the blanching . Also drain WELL after
> cooling, then freeze on wire racks before packing in bags.

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Allan Day  Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
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