I still have strawberries coming in from my garden.
As much as I enjoy strawberry jam I only want to have so many jars in the pantry for consumption and gifts!
We’ve been enjoying the strawberries for dessert and for breakfast and I still have some left. What to do? I decided to freeze a few bags. How wonderful it is to enjoy the fresh taste of strawberries in the middle of winter. One of my mother’s famous desserts is a homemade pound cake with strawberries!
Berries are so easy to freeze. Wash, core, and slice, cut in half or freeze whole.
Sweeten to taste with honey or a little sugar. To freeze sweetened strawberries first slice the berries into a bowl, then toss gently with honey syrup or sugar and pack into your freezer container or bag.
To freeze whole strawberries, simply place them on a baking sheet and freeze until hard. This was the method I decided to use.
Then transfer the berries to freezer bags.
Once my strawberries were frozen solid I used my food sealer to keep them as fresh as possible.
If I didn’t have 12 meat birds coming in a few weeks to fill my freezer I think I would freeze more strawberries!
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