Frozen Food

That is a result. We are moving down to Devon within the month so if you get any grief from grandchildren when they find out your devious move let me know. My lovely other half makes a wonderful cranberry sauce for X-Mas with port and some orange and will share her recipe. I freeze a little and take it away with us to France each summer to go with the spit roast chickens they seem so good at.

Colin

The most important criteria is the quality and freshness of what you freeze. Bear in mind supermarket fish can be up to 17 days old. My trout is frozen within 6/8 hours of being caught.For meat it needs to be matured, ie Beef say 30 days, Lamb 7/10 days  to get the best flavours. The only way is home killed or from a reliable butcher. Just got this years grouse which I will hang for 4 days before freezing.On that basis my frozen food will be good for 12 months. Likewise fruit and veg varies in its freezing quality. The more watery the poor it is.

Earlier this year I froze an expensive good quality chicken. I checked it out the other week and it was just showing signs of frosting. So out it came and we had a roast in tropical temperatures. I find fruit lasts the longest and so do our tomatoes which are roasted first. I dread a power cut with the freezers but OH bought a generator this year so now we have back up. We are prone to power cuts in the winter.

Thats the freezer done,4 Grouse and most of a Fallow Deer. Good wholesome,free range,organic meat aged and matured.Stil blplenty of veg in the garden when needed.Just hope we have electricity all winter. Could be touch and go. No wind for the turbines, no water for the generators. Oil,Gas Nuclear and coal shut down. We may be OK with "green"wood from Canada and some solar pannels.

Don't worry on a power cut. We used to load our table top freezer into the car boot at 8pm and drive through the night. About 4 pm next day when it was finally turned on again it had dropped from -20 to -9.

Colin