Recently more and more hostesses prefer to freeze berries for the winter and to store them in the freezer. And it isn't surprising, at this storage technique of berry practically don't lose the original form and also as much as possible keep taste and vitamins.
Before freezing of berry it is required to touch and remove garbage and low-quality fruits. Further berries need to be washed out (if they are brought together from the site, and at cultivation they weren't exposed to chemical treatments, then this stage can be passed) then to dry, having spread out on cotton fabric in one layer and to leave for about 30-40 minutes in the aired room.
After berries dry up, they need to be spread out in special packages or containers for freezing, to hermetically pack them, to place in department of the freezer separately from other products (especially sea, for example, fishes). After the done work it is required to turn on the freezer on the minimum temperature approximately for a couple of hours. To such images of berry will be frozen quickly and at the same time will keep the maximum quantity of vitamins.
For freezing of the berries which got out of a shape, for example, a few rumpled fruits of cherry, sweet cherry from which stones were taken it is possible to use ""sweet"" method of freezing. Berries need to be rolled in in icing sugar or sand, to wait when juice is emitted then to spread out them in containers and to freeze at the minimum temperature of the freezer. This way of freezing allows not only to keep a form of berries, but also it is favorable to emphasize their taste in the subsequent application.
As for a period of storage of a frozen berries, many types, for example cowberry, a cranberry, sweet cherry, cherry, an aroniya, can be stored about one year at a temperature from-8 to-12 degrees, and here raspberry, strawberry, blackberry, blueberry, bilberry - only seven-eight months. You shouldn't subject to freezing red and white currant, all types of grapes as freezing has negative effect on their gustatory qualities.