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Old July 19, 2016   #15
Ozark
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After leaving the bulbs in a cool room to dry for a couple of weeks, I processed my garlic harvest today. Thanks to TomNJ for posting his method because that's exactly what I did and I'm real pleased with the way it turned out.

I put aside 40 of the largest cloves, unpeeled, to plant in October - those are the red ones in the bowl on the left. Then my wife and I peeled the cloves to be frozen, those in the bowl on the right.

The little electric chopper shown worked great for 'mincing' the peeled garlic cloves, that took less than a minute. The result, minced garlic in bulk, is seen in the bowl in the second picture. Then I put the minced garlic in quart zip-lock freezer bags, pressed it out about 1/4" thick, and laid the bags flat in the freezer. As TomNJ says, it will be easy to unzip a bag to break off the amount of garlic needed, then re-zip the bag. What a great method!





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