If you have a refrigerator with a large freezer at home, use the preparation of fruits and berries for future use - freeze them. In winter, you will have environmentally friendly products from your own summer cottage, which can be defrosted and eaten, only lightly sprinkled with sugar, even without heat treatment. Use homemade frosts for pies and compotes. Some berries retain their shape and flavor perfectly when thawed, such as gooseberries and black currants. They can be used to decorate a cake.
It is necessary
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- fruits;
- berries;
- trays;
- plastic containers with a lid;
- p / e packages.
Instructions
Step 1
Do the preliminary work on preparing fruits and berries for freezing - sort them out. Remove any that are rotten and wrinkled. Rinse fruits and berries in water. If you want to freeze raspberries, you cannot wash them. Sweep the dirty berries with a damp brush for greasing the pies. Remember to rinse the brush after use.
Step 2
Cut large, hard fruit into pieces. This applies to apples, pears, quince. Cut them into thick slices, removing the seeds. Divide peaches, plums, apricots into halves and remove seeds.
Step 3
Blanch the hard fruits. With this treatment, microbes are destroyed, excess moisture and air are removed from the fruit, enzymes that contribute to the darkening of the fruit are destroyed.
Step 4
Boil water in a wide saucepan. Place the fruit slices in a metal sieve and soak in boiling water for two minutes. Remove the sieve and transfer the slices to cool on a flat dish.
Step 5
Try to freeze the fruit so that they are loose, rather than a single briquette. To do this, arrange the blanched and pitted fruits in a single layer on a flat tray and place in the freezer.
Step 6
Pour the prepared berries into cardboard boxes or foam trays in a thin layer and set to freeze.
Step 7
If you have a deep freeze function in your refrigerator, turn it on.
Step 8
Soak fruits and berries in the freezer until they freeze completely.
Step 9
Remove frozen food from the freezer.
Step 10
Pour fruits and berries into containers with a lid or put in several polyethylene bags. Everything should be tightly packed so that the freezing process does not occur.
Step 11
Place your homemade freezer in the freezer.
