topic Re: Freezing Corn in Recipes

Freezing Corn

PA Mom-mom — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 22:15:11 GMT

About 25 years ago, my best friend hit me upside the head and said, "Why do you still blanch your corn?" Her no cook recipe cut my processing time in half.

Donna's Corn:

To every 15 Cups of fresh cut raw corn add:
• 1 Tablespoon non-iodized table salt
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 cup crushed ice
- Mix well, bag in quart freezer bags and freeze immediately. Usually, 7 or 8 ears of corn yields 1 quart of frozen corn. 200 ears should give you 28-30 quart bags.

Re: Freezing Corn

RedTop — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 22:23:48 GMT

I do not cut my corn off the cob to freeze; we just don't like it this way.

Re: Freezing Corn

PA Mom-mom — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 22:31:15 GMT

@RedTop Do you freeze the whole cob? If so, you must have a huge freezer!

Re: Freezing Corn

RedTop — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 22:39:03 GMT

I have a full size upright freezer, and 3 refrigerators with freezers, so I have the space. I only freeze about a dozen packs, and it's gone in a few months. As far as my husband is concerned, there is no other vegetable but corn.

Re: Freezing Corn

fthunt — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 22:42:00 GMT

I have cooked corn on the cob - then cut it off - and put in air tight Foodsaver bags. But........have found it's easier to buy a bag of frozen mixed veggies and dump them in - when making stew. Don't bother with the process of 'processing' one vegetable for later use. Yes, I have a 6 ft huge freezer - but use store bought. Me = not fussy.

Re: Freezing Corn

PA Mom-mom — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 22:44:49 GMT

@RedTop Nice! I like the way your DH thinks! We have a chest freezer, but we also butcher. We use several quarts of corn at each holiday, and I use it in soups, etc. Don't have the room for whole cobs. Bummer!

Re: Freezing Corn

queendiva — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 23:50:38 GMT

@PA Mom-mom : thanks for the recipe. Where I live corn is grown everywhere. At less than $.50 an ear I will surely try this.

Re: Freezing Corn

AuntG — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:14:47 GMT

When I was in my early 20's, I lived in the country with my widower father and I had a hugely successful garden with rows of sweet corn. One day, an older lady pulled in the driveway and handed me her recipe for " freezer corn". That was the best corn I ever put up. Fast forward and now I buy maybe a dozen ears a year.

Re: Freezing Corn

Hoovermom — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 21:14:12 GMT

@AuntG wrote:
When I was in my early 20's, I lived in the country with my widower father and I had a hugely successful garden with rows of sweet corn. One day, an older lady pulled in the driveway and handed me her recipe for " freezer corn". That was the best corn I ever put up. Fast forward and now I buy maybe a dozen ears a year.

@AuntG ....what's the secret?

Re: Freezing Corn

AuntG — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 23:10:10 GMT

I was surprised to discover I had kept the recipe card. This is just how she wrote it @Hoovermom

4 quarts corn - cut off raw

1 quart water

2 tsp. salt

1/3 cup sugar

1/4 cup butter

Mix together. Cook hard for 3 to 4 minutes, stirring constantly. Set aside to cool. Then pack into freezer containers.

After I made several batches of it and thanked her, she said you can make a cream style version combining whipping cream with 2T. of cornstarch, cooking and stirring until thickened and bubbly. In those days, we got heavy cream right from a cheese factory.

Re: Freezing Corn

queendiva — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 19:38:45 GMT

@AuntG : by "cook hard" do you mean add all to water at a rolling boil? TIA.