So the tangerine season has come! This New Year fruit in itself is a storehouse of usefulness and beauty. But no less interesting, you can use mandarin peels.
Tangerine Peels for Health
If you have suffered a cold and bronchitis, take three tablespoons of tangerine peels, pour two glasses of very hot water, let it brew for a couple of hours and then strain. Add some honey and drink this infusion throughout the day.
Increased blood sugar will help normalize the decoction of the mandarin peel. Take one liter of water, boil the peel of three tangerines in it and take 30 ml several times a day.
Alcohol infusion of mandarin peels enhances immunity, as well as improves appetite and digestion. Pour the peel of one mandarin with a glass of vodka and insist in a dark place for a week. Take 20 drops 3 times daily before meals.
Tangerine peels for beauty
The most common recipe is a tonic of tangerine peels. Pour the peel of one mandarin with a glass of cold drinking or mineral water, let it brew for a day and wipe your face with this tonic several times a day. It allows you to get rid of black spots and helps tighten sagging skin.
A tangerine peel scrub will improve your mood, give your skin a pleasant aroma and good appearance. Grind the dried peel in a blender to a powder and store it in a glass jar. Pour the right amount of water to the state of slurry and use it as a regular scrub.
Dried tangerine peels can simply wash the body, after soaking them in hot water.
Tangerine peel is very useful for nails. Just wipe your nails with it every time you eat tangerine - it whitens and strengthens nails well. And besides, it helps fight some types of nail fungus.
Cooking Tangerine Peels
From the peel of the tangerine, excellent candied fruits and jam are obtained. It can also just be added to tea for aroma.
Dried and crushed tangerine peels can be added to meat during frying, they give an unusual and original taste.
Mandarin peels can be added to pastries, decorate cakes with them or boil liquor from them.
Tangerine peels for decoration
Various shapes can be cut out from the peels of the mandarin, put together into beads, garlands, pendants and decorate the house for the holiday.
Real tangerine roses or other flowers are created from neatly cut round peel.
Dried peels can be varnished, painted, created from them voluminous paintings or various crafts.
