Showing posts with label Milk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Milk. Show all posts

Monday, April 20, 2009

Freezing Eggs & Milk

These recipes are from Becky's Farmlife blog. She shares such wonderful thoughts and practical daily living. Well worth a visit -- grab a pen a paper when you go and enjoy the recipes and notes!
I post them here to keep them tucked into my own files. We have always kept eggs in the freezer, either our own farm eggs or those from a great sale at the store (our local WalMart has big problems planning their ordering when it comes to eggs! LOL...they have so many different varieties now, with free range, brown, organic, etc. that they always have a sale well under $1 dozen when the dates get close. I stocked some 20 dozen one month and froze them all!)

Freezing Eggs
You crack say 2 -3 eggs into a bowl, add 1/4 tsp. of sugar or salt 9 use sugar or salt depending on what the eggs will be used for), just pop the yoke, and pour into a freezer bag. label your bag sugar or salt and how many eggs inside. Check your most used recipes to find the number of eggs you use the most. I use 6 eggs in ice cream with 1/2 tsp of sugar. Eggs to eat, I pack in 3’s with 1/4 tsp salt. Eggs for cakes add sugar to eggs. The only thing you can’t do with these eggs is have them fried. I have found they last 6 -12 months in the freezer. The older they get, its best to use them in recipes than to eat plain. A lot of people don’t know you can freeze eggs. After the first year here of home grown eggs, the store bought eggs didn’t taste so good any more. So I found a way to keep us in eggs when the hens slow down. This does work with store eggs, too. Date your bags and always use the oldest first.
Freezing Milk:
I have found that best way to freeze milk is to use juice bottles or 2 liter bottles, WHY? the jugs that milk comes in is very thin and weak. And more times than not, when the milk thaws the jug leaks. In a 2 liter bottle put a 1/2 gallon of milk, this will leave room for it to freeze. Always date your bottles. And it will thaw over night in ice box. I have found it will last 6- 12 months in freezer, I know that is not what is said, but that’s what works here. Just always use the oldest first. We have done this for over 6 years now, and same with eggs.