I tried this year to freeze some of the baskets and baskets of fruit they gave me - as juice to make fresh lemonade in the summer, to use for cleaning, your skin, and in recipes. I LOVE LEMONS!!
A note: Lemons and limes freeze the best. Orange juice separates - grapefruit is just ok when thawed, doesn't have the super fresh taste I love from fresh squeezed.
Unless they're quite small, I cut the lemons in quarters, not only so they fit in the citrus squeezer better, but also so I can squeeze out every drop of juice. I use a plain stainless steel hand juicer, which works great. For containers to keep the juice you can use about anything, I had several sizes of Ziploc containers - larger ones for lemonade making, smaller ones for cooking, and jars for making sugar scrub and cleaning supplies.
Here's your reward for about 10 minutes of squeezing, or maybe more if you have to squeeze by hand. Lime and lemon juice will keep in the freezer for several months. To use the juice, I try to let it thaw naturally by removing the bottle from the freezer an hour or so before I need it for a recipe and just letting it sit on the counter. You can also measure out the amount of liquid one compartment of an ice cube tray holds, freeze the juice in that, and then pop out the cubes and store in a ziploc bag. This method is especially handy because you already know how much one cube is, so no need to measure! Thanks, Lisa - for this great tip!!
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