Storage Directions Recipe

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Ingredients:

Sweetpotatoes, Hard-Rind Squashes, Eggplant, and Rutabagas:
Store at cool room temperature(around 60 F.) Temperatures below 50 F. may cause chilling injury. These will keep several months at 60 F., but only a week at room temperature.
Onions:
Store mature onions at room temperature, or slightly cooler, in loosely woven or open-mesh containers. Stored in this way, they keep several months. They sprout and decay at high temperature and in high humidity.
Keep green onions cold and moist in the refrigerator. Store in plastic bags. use within 3 to 5 days.
Carrots, Beets, Parsnips, Radishes, and Turnips:
Remove tops. Store in refrigerator in plastic bags or plastic containers. Use within 2 weeks.
Potatoes:
Store in a dark, dry place with good ventilation away from any source of heat, with a temperature of about 45 to 50 F. Potatoes stored in this manner will keep for several months. Light causes greening, which lowers eating quality. High temperatures hasten sprouting and shriveling. If stored at room temperature, use withing a week.

Directions:

Sort vegetables before storing them. Use immediately any vegetables that are bruised or soft. Discard any that show evidence of decay.

Submitted 6/13/05.
Source: The Complete Book Of Vegetable Gardening
Submitted By: Linda Wilson
lwilson@gatecom.com
Storage Directions


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