Our peach tree is full of ripe peaches so I am making the basics of a peach pie to freeze. This can be done with almost any fruit: it's easy. Just make the pie filling like normal so in this case, I mixed:
6 c peaches
1 1/4 c flour
1 1/4 c sugar
And to the fruit, I added 2 T of Fruit Fresh to hold the peaches in the freezer. Then I poured the mix into a pie plate--no crust--and froze it. When the fruit was frozen, I slid it out of the pie plate into a 1 gallon freezer bag to store.
In the winter, when we want a peach pie, I'll partially thaw the peaches and place in a crust to bake. But I learned something this time: one of the pie plates full of peaches was not frozen solid so when I slid it into the freezer bag, it broke apart. So I took the freezer bag full of peaches and placed it inside the pie plate and froze it in the bag! What a revelation. I should have been doing this for years. Once the bag of fruit was frozen, I removed the pie plate.
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