The corn frozen at peak of the maturity doesn't lose either aroma, or the fine gustatory qualities. The efforts spent for its freezing pay off a hundredfold. Pay attention to a grade of corn which you were going to freeze. Sugar subspecies are ideal.
It is required to you
- Ear corn
- Big pan with water
- Wide bowl with cold water and ice
- Packages for freezing
- Freezer
Instruction
1. Clean a corncob from a peel, since that end where a brush. Remove all fibers.
2. Put ears in a big pan, fill in with water, put on fire and bring to the boil. You cook no more than five minutes.
3. While corn begins to boil, prepare a big and wide bowl with cold water and ice.
4. Drain hot water and lower mealies in the container with ice. It is important that process of preparation of corn was instantly stopped. This method is called scalding. Thanks to it and grains of corn will be left without wrinkles, and the following step – enucleating of grains – will pass much easier.
5. Vylushchite of grain from an ear in a big bowl.
6. Prepare bags for freezing and a big spoon or a special rake. Fill one sack and remember how many spoons or rakes to you it was required.
7. Put a package flatwise on a land surface and, slowly and accurately, smooth it with a hand. So there will be an excess air, grains will quicker be frozen and will take less places. Close a package and remove in the freezer.
8. Spread out the remained corn on packages and remove in the freezer in one layer. When all corn finally is frozen, it will be possible to put packages in private.
9. If you have not enough time, then it is possible to freeze corn without scalding. It will a little lose in taste, but will be quite edible. Clean ears and freeze them entirely. After freezing get them and you vylushchit grains. Spread out them on packages and again remove in the fridge.
10. You can freeze the blanched corn directly in ears, but so it will take much more places in the freezer. The corn frozen in ears can be warmed quickly in the microwave oven, having wrapped up in damp paper towels.