Mandarins are no longer just part of St. Nicholas packages, but we have access to them throughout the year. Do you also buy them? Most of us probably reach for them from time to time. But did you know that throwing their peel should be (with exaggeration) a crime?
It is a great pity to throw the peel from tangerines into the trash can. For once, think about their possible further use and try to start to start. And if you even expose them to hot sun rays on hot summer days, you will see an interesting surprise.
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To the kitchen and in the first -aid kit
The dried material that we would have previously fired will then find wide use in the home. It is full and substances that we can use with a little creativity in many ways. For example in the kitchen or to strengthen your own health.
All you need is your peels and the sun
Drying of mandarin hulls is not difficult and you do not need any expensive devices or equipment. In short, spread them into the sun – you can put them on a clean sheet of paper (beware, not newspapers), cardboard, or ideally on a grid or grate. Thus, the air will also have access from the underside, which will significantly speed up the drying. The sun, as much as it can, will help with moisture evaporation and concentrated aromatic compounds and essential oils remain in the peels. These are even in humid state responsible for the characteristic aroma of citrus – and in dried peels it fulfills its role even more intensely.
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They will be used in the kitchen
We have dried mandarin skin – and what about them now? As already mentioned, the possibilities of their use are very diverse. If you go to the kitchen with them, they will become an excellent aromatic spice mainly into sweet baking. Cookies, muffins, or cakes will smell the distance. But you can also taste fine sauces or marinades to flavor meat. Especially Asian meals will approach the taste of their homeland a little more. Attention! If you want to consume tangerine peels in any form, choose fruit in the store, or wash them at least thoroughly before peeling!
Tea not only for Christmas
But that’s not all – they will also do a good service in an non -flying form, as an addition to home -prepared tea mixtures. You can add herbs, cinnamon, star anise, cloves and more. You can prepare for a hot drink, which you will probably appreciate most in the winter months. Do you feel it? The heat of the stove, thick socks with a Christmas theme, one fairy tale after another and you sit in the room and drink sweet fragrant tea. It’s worth a little effort, isn’t it?
The scent of a home according to mandarins
But in order to move further from the kitchen, we can make an excellent air freshener from dried mandarin peels, because they are directly as intended for absorbing various odors. Place them in small bags, just as you do with Potpourri, and place them in the closets, shelves, bathrooms… When you boil with cloves and let the decoction in an open bowl, for example, close to the radiator, it will slowly evaporate.
Clean up with mandarins
Would you think that you can also easily clean up the apartment using mandarin peel? Put them in vinegar for several weeks and get a perfect natural cleaning agent for kitchen, bathrooms and glass surfaces. The vinegar cleans everything perfectly and even relieves even the scale, while the tangerine essence leaves behind only a beautiful fine scent.
Repels annoying insects
If we are talking about the smell, then we have to admit that it may be more of an insurmountable odor for someone. But it also plays the cards beautifully. This aroma is a scarecrow for many unpleasant annoying insects that we want to keep as far away from our territory. Yes – and all this can be dried and otherwise modified tangerine peels. So how do you see it? Throw away or take advantage of?
