freezing produce

[dexterdoglancashire]

Hi martini - yes, I also par boil my tatties then freeze them. Take them out about an hour before you want to roast them, dust them with a bit of flour and hey presto! best roasties I've ever done. dexterdog

[martini]

Thanks Dexter - I've never tried putting flour on them before but I should imagine it makes them nice and crunchy.

[Earthbabe]

Oohh. Hadn't tried the flour trick either. Will it work with gluten free flour I wonder? Although because after par boiling we toss in butter they normally seem to go quite crunchy. OH has not complained and he tells me he is a connoisseur!

[martini]

Hi Earthbabe - I should imagine gluten free flour will work - well I hope it will because my 14 year old daughter has coeliac disease so I will have to use gluten free flour for her roasties and do them separately so we don't cross-contaminate! I make her bread, cakes, biscuits etc and even the gravy for the Sunday roast using gluten free flour - it's not ideal but as she says - it's better that a 'wheat attack' !

[Wooster]

Re Freezing spuds

Hi

I have successfully frozen Anya and Charlotte potatoes and used them as boiled potatoes. The Anyas were blanched whole for 2 mins , plunged into ice-cold water, dried then bagged and frozen. The Charlottes got the same treatment but they were cut into mouthsize pieces. I put them straight out of the freezer into boling water & cook as normal. Eating 'new' potatoes in the middle of winter makes me smile!!!

[eddie]

hi martini no she thaws them first said she will try the rolling in flour tho,

[JazzDuke]

I thought people stored potatoes in sacks, onions in nets, carrots in clamps etc. Why use a freezer?

[Alice]

I thought people stored potatoes in sacks, onions in nets, carrots in clamps etc. Why use a freezer?

My carrots (and other things) come out of the freezer as fresh as they were 5 minutes ago, not like carrots that have been in a clamp for months. Some things I would never freeze (or store) But we all do it in our own way for our own reasons.

[clarelouise4]

If you have Dr Hessayon's "The Vegetable Expert" there is a little section under each vegetable on how to prepare it for freezing.

[dexterdoglancashire]

I missed that bit clarelouise! nice one! dexterdog...............off to read my copy..................

[Waffler]

Freshness is something that's concerned me with storing Alice. For all they go on about eating '5 a day', I do wonder whether the clamped carrots, for example, actually have any goodness left in them, months down the line. Surely an argument for freezing (Birds Eye freeze their peas within an hour - don't you know! and all that mallarky)
Is there any science person out there who can hazard a guess as to the freshness of stored (non frozen) veg?