Mr Libido Incognito wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote on 28 Oct 2005 in rec.food.cooking
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> > "jw 1111" > wrote
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> > > Hi, I wish to cut a lemon in half and save one half. what is the
> > > best way to save that half? in a plastic bag in fridge, or can I
> > > freeze it and then defrost it and still use a little at a time?
> >
> > I just wrap it tightly in a little piece of plastic wrap and keep it
> > in the refrigerator. It keeps pretty well. I use it often enough.
> > I know you can freeze whole lemons, buy them on sale ... they
> > are good for juice. Don't see why you can't freeze half.
> >
> > > what is the best way to cut it and squeeze it? The often seen way
> > > of thin segments squeezed between the fingers seems hard work.
> >
> > Does to me, too, and seems as if a lot of the juice remains on your
> > hands. I swear by my wooden lemon reamer, gets out the last drop.
> >
> > nancy
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> I buy lemon when there is a sale...zest them and squeeze all the juice into
> a jar. I keep the jar in the fridge for weeks and there isn't a problem.

Probably wouldn't be a problem, but that's not gonna taste anything
like fresh squeezed... been there, done that, blech... makes bottled
taste better, much better. And my experience is that frozen lemons do
not taste anything like fresh, I don't freeze lemons.

Mother Nature's citrus rind is the best citrus preservative there is,
but still not for long term storage, perhaps two weeks in the fridge at
best, and that's for uncut. Once cut lemons lose their fresh lemon
flavor very rapidly, by the next day you may as well use bottled.
Lemons are cheap, I buy a few at a time and once cut I tend to use the
whole lemon, if not all that moment then by the end of the day... like
after squeezing say a quarter the rind goes in my wine glass.... by the
end of the day I can easily have all four quarters of rind in my glass.
It's very rare that I can't use an entire lemon within the day... I
mean like it's a measly lemon, no huge amount... anyone who saves part
of a lemon saves part of a beer, blech! I don't save cut lemons, odds
are they'll be forgotten and have grown penicillin long before I find
them. I've visited people who save half a lemon, half an onion, half
an apple... their fridge is a virtual compost heap, chock full of all
these scary looking plastic wrapped mysteries... they figure they saved
them so they must be valuable.

Sheldon