Re: Question on freezing sweet potatoes

[Guest guest]

Why, I know this one, LOL!

My mom often boiled them, removed the skins (not necessary but what she

did), mashed them with butter, and froze them. They thawed out very nicely -

she'd just warm 'em up! She did this when she had a lot of sweet potatos and

was afraid they'd rot before she cooked them.

Christie

[Guest guest]

At 10:17 AM 1/12/05 -0800, you wrote:

>

>Why, I know this one, LOL!

And so willing to share! So kind!

>

>My mom often boiled them, removed the skins (not necessary but what she

>did), mashed them with butter, and froze them. They thawed out very nicely -

>she'd just warm 'em up! She did this when she had a lot of sweet potatos and

>was afraid they'd rot before she cooked them.

Excellent, thank you. Guess that means that they don't get so nasty as

potatoes after freezing (my gut said no, but it's always nice to have

confirmation!)

BTW, I read that the actual trick to freezing potatoes is NEVER LET THEM

DEFROST before heating/reheating. In recent experimentations, that seems

to be true. Which is why I still won't freeze soup/stew with the potatoes

already in it if I can avoid it - but baked/stuffed ones are excellent if

they go straight from the freezer into the oven.

Then again, I put so much other stuff in my B/S potatoes, you can hardly

tell there's potato in there anyway. That might have a lot to do with

it too.

Thanks! I'm off to boil me some sweet taters.

MFJ

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or

kings - stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once

again. ~Greg Bear

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Actually they freeze very, very well. I used to buy 10 of them at a time,

wash and cut off both ends, bake them until they were soft, remove the skins

and then freeze them. They thawed and warmed up almost as good as fresh.

If I recall correctly consistency was excellent.

Ron

> Anyone ever frozen them? In what form? Do they do the

> same thing as

> potatoes when frozen - i.e. get kind of mealy and yucky. (I

> try never to

> freeze soup with potatoes in it haha.)