How to make your own tangerine peel?

As we all know, tangerine peel is not only a material that can be used to make delicious food, but it is also a well-known and widely used Chinese herbal medicine. Generally speaking, tangerine peel can be bought in the market. If you really like eating oranges, you can also make tangerine peel at home, which is more economical. So, what is the easiest way to make tangerine peel at home?

Tangerine peel

Tangerine peel is the name in the pharmacopoeia. It is made from the ripe peel of the tangerine, so it is also called tangerine peel. Its variant, tea-branch citrus, can also be used as medicine, called Guanggan peel. The best quality ones are not fully ripe, green in color, thick in skin, small in size and without scars. The finished product should be dried once a year and stored in a cool and dry place to prevent mildew and moth. The finished product pictures show one-year-old tangerine peel and fifteen-year-old tangerine peel. Homemade tangerine peel is safer, more hygienic and more authentic than mass-produced ones. It’s better to have your own children.

Ingredients: oranges, drinking water.

Steps:

Step 1: Mandarin oranges: 2300 grams.

Step 2: Rinse the surface with drinking water.

Step 3: Make a cross to separate the peel and flesh. The tangerine peel weighs 425 grams. Cut it into four pieces with scissors and set aside. Squeeze the tangerine flesh into juice.

Step 4: Steam the tangerine peel for 5 minutes.

Step 5: Let it dry for a while and then string it on a skewer. After this, the tangerine peel should not be exposed to oil, salt or raw water.

Step 6: Dry in the sun. Do not expose to direct sunlight.

Step 7: After drying, it becomes one-year tangerine peel, weighing 132 grams.

Step 8: Air-dry the wood once a year to remove moisture, prevent mildew and moth damage. After fifteen years, it becomes fifteen-year-old tangerine peel, as shown in the picture. During this period, you can take the tangerine peel and steam it with licorice juice and dry it nine times to make nine-processed tangerine peel; you can also soak it in refined honey, roast it and dry it to make honey-processed tangerine peel.