{"id":1233,"date":"2011-04-24T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2011-04-24T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T07:00:09","slug":"qa-freezing-yeast-and-restoring-hard-garlic-and-onion-powder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/04\/24\/qa-freezing-yeast-and-restoring-hard-garlic-and-onion-powder\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: Freezing yeast and Restoring hard garlic and onion powder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Freezing yeast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Can you freeze the bags of yeast that you can get at Costco? If so, for how long?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jim Schmautz<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Lolo, Montana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes! In fact it&#8217;s the best way to keep it for a long time, even a couple of years. On the shelf, yeast will only stay fresh for about 6 months or so. Refrigerated, you can easily double that. But in the freezer, it stays good for years! I always have one, divided, part on the shelf in the pantry and part in the fridge. But I also always have a pound in the freezer of my fridge&#8230;just in case. Then I rotate that after a couple of years and add a fresh one, just as I rotate my long-term storage and canned foods. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Restoring hard onion and garlic powder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We have large cans of onion and garlic powders from Sam&#8217;s that were kept in the basement before we had a dehumidifier. They are rock hard. How do we restore them to their powder form so to use&#8217;m in everyday shaker bottles<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Monty Digby<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ropesville, Texas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d take the contents out and put them on a cutting board. Depending on just how hard the powders are, I&#8217;d chop the block with either a cleaver or butcher knife until you have pieces small enough to fit into a blender. Whiz a piece or two at a time (make them half dollar size or smaller) until they are again powder. Repeat until all are fixed. If you don&#8217;t have a blender, I&#8217;ve used a rolling pin, corralling the powder with a cookie sheet. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freezing yeast Can you freeze the bags of yeast that you can get at Costco? If so, for how long? Jim Schmautz Lolo, Montana Yes! In fact it&#8217;s the best way to keep it for a long time, even a couple of years. On the shelf, yeast will only stay fresh for about 6 months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}