More often modern hostesses instead of traditional preparations for the winter prefer to freeze vegetables and fruit. It is very convenient. When freezing, more useful substances remain. We will talk about what can be prepared from the frozen vegetables, fruit and berries.
What to prepare from a frozen berries
Freeze any edible berries. Traditionally: blackcurrant, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, sea-buckthorn, cowberry and cranberry. From them it is possible to make vitamin fruit drink, compotes, kissels, the most tasty stuffings for pies and pies, jelly and light jam. And here a frozen berries doesn't suit for decoration of cakes as get out of a shape after a defrosting. Especially it concerns some strawberry. For example, for preparation of a small amount of jam for a tea drinking it is possible to take a handful of a frozen berries, to add sugar, about one tablespoon, 1/4 glasses of water. Boil thoroughly some time. It isn't obligatory for you to uvarivat it at all before that the droplet didn't spread on a saucer. The less heat treatment will last, the your dessert will be more useful. It is possible just to wipe the defrozen berries with sugar and their tax to pancakes or fritters.
What to prepare from the frozen fruit
The frozen apricots, apples, cherry, plum, cherry plum are also used for preparation of stuffings, jam, compotes. Some hostesses specially freeze fruit before preparation of jams that the consistence was more gentle and homogeneous. It is possible to do fruit mixes and to freeze them in the small portions.
What to prepare from the frozen vegetables
The frozen vegetables and greens add to soups, borsches, to meat, fish, do ragout, lecso. That is in most cases subject to heat treatment, except for preparation of salads. It is possible to do vegetable mixes, for example, to freeze preparation for borsch: grated beet, carrots, paprika pieces. It is better not to add greens to such mixes, and to freeze separately as greens don't need long cooking, from it its taste is lost.