Can You Freeze Aberdeen Butteries?

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Aberdeen butteries are quite the delicacy but not particularly easy to get ahold of. If you have managed to grab some, perhaps you need to investigate how to store them… For the long term!

How to Freeze Aberdeen Butteries

Freezing Aberdeen butteries isn’t too complex, but ensuring they retain their iconic flavour and texture is a little trickier.

Here are our steps to freezing the pastry delights:

1. Wrap: After allowing the butteries to cool to room temperature, wrap each buttery in cling film tightly, pressing the film gently to the surface of the butteries carefully.
2. Wrap Again: Wrap the cling film parcel in foil, precisely, a heavy-duty foil. This will help protect the food’s outer layer from any physical damage that it might undergo in the freezer, so it’s an important step to bear in mind.
3. Freeze: Freeze the butteries right in the centre of the freezer, where they’ll be as far as possible from the solid ice at the edge of the freezer.

3 Tips for Freezing Aberdeen Butteries

Now you know how to freeze them, we’ve got our 3 top tips which we strongly recommend following when freezing Aberdeen butteries to have the best results:

Check the Seal is Tight
Ensuring that the cling film is tight and pressed directly to the surface of the pastry will prevent the outer layer from getting soggy. This will allow your Aberdeen Butteries to be just as tasty as you know they can be! 

Be Gentle!
Butteries are a dense pastry, so you’d be hard-pressed to do any real damage. However, it is worth avoiding crushing them since any air pockets would be destroyed. This leads to a dense, unpleasant pastry and would be worth avoiding where you can. 

Freeze Before OR After Baking
You can freeze Aberdeen butteries before or after baking! If you’d like to freeze them before baking, we advise following the same freezing methods as we laid out above but baking them directly from frozen for five minutes more than the recipe states.

How Long Can You Freeze Aberdeen Butteries?

You can freeze Aberdeen butteries for around 3 months.

This is because pastry will tend to slowly absorb moisture in the freezer, becoming denser and less pleasant overall.

To ensure you get the whole three months, make sure that you form a seal with the cling film – gently press the film along the seams, and you should be good to go!

How Do You Defrost Aberdeen Butteries?

You can defrost Aberdeen butteries by placing them in the fridge overnight, or on the countertop for a few hours. In this situation, they’ll be cool, of course, rather than warm from the oven.

You might find it tastier to place them in a 200˚C/400˚F oven for five minutes or so – that will typically thaw them and leave them a little warm since they’ll be fresh from a hot oven.

Can You Refreeze Aberdeen Butteries?

Yes, you can refreeze Aberdeen butteries safely.

However, we would advise against it – as with all forms of bread and pastry, the flour can attract moisture in the freezer. This can lead to them getting soggy, which would make for a poor final pastry.

Therefore, try to only thaw the butteries that you know you’ll eat.

Do Aberdeen Butteries Freeze Well?

Yes, Aberdeen butteries do freeze well!

They’re a very dense pastry without a lot of gluten built up to make the texture chewy.

Therefore, they can be frozen and thawed while retaining their flavour and crumbly, dense texture.

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