Introduction

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Freeze with Ease: The Complete Home Freezer Cookbook is an innovative cookbook that gives helpful tips and instruction to women of the 1960s on how to utilize their freezers as their best ally in the kitchen. This cookbook aims to provide delicious recipes that will taste good after being thawed out from frozen. It also aims to create efficiency when making dinner so as little time is spent in the kitchen as possible, and that saved time can go towards entertaining guests or spending more time with their families. Efficiency is created with tricks, such as, blanching vegetables, so they will retain their texture and freezing herbs in cheesecloth to be used, without defrosting, to flavour soups and stews. Recipes found in the book such as Crepes filled with crabmeat and Miniature Quiche Lorraine are fairly simple to prepare, but are not plain or boring.  This book is organized into four sections. Section 1: Cold Hands, Warm Heart: Basic Rules for Using the Freezer gives advice on the purchase and upkeep of a freezer and how to cook, defrost, and package frozen foods. Section 2: Cooking After Five: The Working Housewife gives dinner menus for a family. Section 3: The More the Merrier: Quantity Cooking for the Freezer describes the method of cooking once a month, and Section 4: The Unharried Hostess: Using Your Freezer in Party Planning gives menus for situations like formal parties.

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