HOME FREEZER FROM U.S.

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29130, 16 February 1960, Page 2

HOME FREEZER FROM U.S.

Appliance “Paid For Itself”

One piece of luggage Mrs R. M. Firth brought with her when she and her husband returned to New Zealand from San Francisco was her 12-cubic-foot deep freeze. “It was absolutely indispensable for last-minute entertaining,” said Mrs Firth, the wife of the retiring New Zealand Government Tourist representative in San Francisco, in Christchurch yesterday. In it she would keep various sorts of meat, usually roasting chickens, ready stuffed, frozen vegetables, which on Fridays she could buy at 3d to 6d a carton cheaper at the food shops by taking dozen lots. “I have had a whole lamb ini it, and I would sometimes buy | a quarter-carcase of beef and get the butcher to cut it up for me,” she said. “I made soup with the beef bones and stored that too. “Once a friend brought me a sack of mushrooms—and I made it into mushroom soup and stored it in the deep freeze.” The freezer was “absolutely marvellous” for keeping game and fish from hunting and fishing trips, and food cheap in seasonlike asparagus—could be stored for the out-of-season months. Mrs Firth had her own way of storing asparagus. She bought a box of asparagus cut it into lengths that would go into the waxed cartons of the freeze, blanched it for two minutes in boiling water then droped it into iced water and dried it. “When I wanted it I would cook it quickly for about eight minutes and it was wonderful,” she said. Mrs Firth would have two or three casseroles and 10 or 12 fruit pies—whatever was in season—in the deep freezer. She three-quarter baked the pies, then browned them when they were wanted. “With all the savings, the freezer really paid for itself,” she said.