can i freeze summer fruits and veges?
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Topic: can i freeze summer fruits and veges?
Posted By: Bexee
Subject: can i freeze summer fruits and veges?
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 12:34pm
| Okay, dumb question, but I'm keen to take advantage of the cheap summer produce and freeze some - esp. asparagus, avocado and stonefruit like peaches and nectarines. But do I need to do something to them first? And do avocadoes even freeze? Help! I'm trying to be domesticated but have no idea how. |
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Posted By: Caro07
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 1:46pm
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Not sure about avocado or asparagus but I did have a go at preserving sone plums and peaches a few years ago. I am pretty sure I cooked the peaches and froze them in a sugar syrup. It definitely wasn't as straightforward as just freezing them. I also preserved them in jars with a sugar syrup. Very fiddly but they did taste nice in the middle of winter!
I think I followed the advice in the Edmonds cookbook You must be able to freeze avocado as Wattie's do a guacamole that is frozen don't they?  ------------- Caroline, SAHM to 2 boys, S (4 years old) and J (2 years old) 
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Posted By: Katep
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 1:51pm
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At a resturant I use to work at kept blended avocado in the freezer. Not sure about other things. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Tastic
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 3:19pm
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you can mashed avocado but not sure whole.
asparagus yes you can but you must par cook them first! so put into hot boiling water for like 3 or 4 minutes then place straight into ice cold water! fruits like strawberry's, boysenberry's, blue berries, grapes (I cut in half and scrap the seeds out) you can, I just put a whole lot into bag in the freezer for like smoothies etc. I just cut them into pieces to make it easier Im not too sure about freezing stone fruit though. Id preserve them or make them into jam (you can freeze them if you are just gona make jam as they become quite mushy and watery) |
Posted By: Turtle
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 4:21pm
| With the stone fruit I'd more likely jar it in syrup. You could make it into a puree and freeze it the same as you do with apple, but then it is only really going to be suitable for pies/crumbles or over cereal I think. |
Posted By: M2K
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 4:39pm
I froze pureed avocado, it worked out alright... stone fruit Im not so sure about.. I ended up buying tinned food  ------------- 
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Posted By: sunnyhoney
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 5:07pm
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We freeze mandarins, peaches, apricots, pears, apple, berries...no problems. ------------- Mum to: Joy Emily 1.05am 27/09/07 7lb 3oz Austin Paul 12.47pm 18/04/10 10lb 8oz |
Posted By: AandCsmum
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 5:19pm
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I have seen avocado halves snap frozen ------------- Kel http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Rovic
Date Posted: 03 January 2010 at 6:42pm
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I know my aunt, who has a prolific plum tree, freezez plums every year to use in pies and sauces etc over winter. Not sure if you could eat just like fresh though. ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 04 January 2010 at 10:36am
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Fruit tend to defrost mushy. Which is fine if you're using them to stew up or something, but means you can't just defrost a plum and eat it like that. I tend to stew fruit first, then freeze it (technically, I guess I could save freezer-space by jarring it, but haven't done that before). -------------   
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