Forms for ice production – the useful invention of American Lloyd Groff Kopman. Initially in them froze water then to use for cooling of drinks. Today this kitchen stock is used to the most various purposes.
For the aid to culinary specialists
In icetrays it is convenient to freeze fresh herbs. Cut favourite greens and divide into small portions. Put everything in cells of molds for ice, fill in with olive oil and freeze. The stiffened cubes can be taken out from forms, to put in a plastic bag or a food container and to store in the freezer. Before using greens, warm oil in which it was stored, and add to the necessary dish.
It should be noted, such storage technique is the is best of all suits rigid herbs, such as oregano, a sage, a thyme, rosemary. The greens which aren't demanding preliminary cooking (fennel, parsley, green onions, mint) when freezing lose the properties and aroma.
Prepare for the future the real cubes. Small portions of meat soup are often necessary for preparation of sauces and some dishes. Cook dense broth, as on jelly. Use meat at discretion, and pour broth in icetrays. Cool it and you store on the top shelf of the fridge. The fat accumulating on a broth surface will protect from penetration of air into a cube, thanks to it the product can be stored up to 2 weeks. In icetrays it is possible to freeze forcemeat. For example, for quenelles soup. Knead forcemeat with onions and spices and densely stamp in icetrays. It is also convenient to freeze forcemeat in pure form for meat dishes for small children.
For desserts
And how many desserts can be prepared by means of icetrays! For example, small portions of ice cream with fruit or berries. For such treat it is better to use silicone molds. Put in each cell several favourite berries or on a fruit piece. Fill in with fat creamy yogurt, insert a skewer or a toothpick into the middle and leave for a couple of hours in the freezer. By the same principle make fruit ice. Squeeze out juice of favourite fruit, pour in forms and freeze. One more delicacy in molds for ice – strawberry in chocolate. Spread out ripe fresh berries of the average size on cells and fill in with the kindled milk chocolate. Put in the freezer for a couple of hours. And later enjoy a tasty dessert. In the same way it is possible to prepare also other sweeties – power bars from dried fruits, nuts and honey, glazed cheese curds, burned sugar, an iris with corn sticks, etc. Too it is convenient to do jelly figures in icetrays. Mix a glass of a natural fruit juice with a gelatin tablespoon. Stir that grains of gelatin were completely dissolved. Wait for minutes 20, and then heat the future of jelly on a water bath. Only you don't bring to the boil, otherwise weight won't stiffen. Pour juice in forms, cover with a polyethylene film and put at several o'clock in the fridge. Lower a form with the stiffened jelly for couple of seconds in hot water, then turn upside down – the dessert will easily slip out cells.
For needlewomen
Icetrays and the people who are engaged hendmeydy estimated. It is convenient to store different trifles in small cells – buttons, pins, beads, paper clips and other. In molds it is possible to mix gouache or acrylic paints. In figured forms of the needlewoman adapted to prepare small candles and soap. In addition, molds can be used for seedling of flowers from seeds, previously having made in day small openings for running off of excess moisture.