Frozen Mashed Potatoes to Hold Pie Fillings and to Top Pies

If the men who eat at your table are meat-and-potato fans, you’ll welcome the new method of successfully freezing mashed potatoes developed in Farm Journal’s Test Kitchens. You can use them to top main-dish pies or to make nestlike shells to hold chicken, meat, vegetable, fish and other hearty fillings.

There’s one important precaution to heed: Shape the potatoes ready for use before freezing. Thawing softens potatoes and makes them mushy.

A convenient way to stock your freezer is to cook and mash double the amount of potatoes when you are getting a meal. Use one half, freeze the other. You can store frozen mashed potatoes up to 2 months. Here is the basic recipe with some suggestions of what to do with it. You’ll find many more ways to make pies with frozen potatoes once you start keeping the shells or nests and the topping in your freezer.