Especially if you orient your purchases towards organic products or have non-chemically treated fruit and vegetables available directly from your home garden, allocating their skins to the garbage would be a real shame, especially now that you will have the opportunity to enrich your knowledge. about their numerous alternative uses in the kitchen, in housework, for beauty care and more.
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Le fruit and vegetable peels they are normally considered as the less noble parts of these precious foods and are therefore immediately destined to be transformed first into waste and immediately afterwards into waste. In the municipalities where the staff is gathered, fortunately they are transformed into compost, but this is just one of the many uses to which they can be used.
Especially if you orient your purchases towards organic products or have them available chemically untreated fruit and vegetables directly from yours home garden, assigning their skins to garbage would be a real shame, especially now that you will have the opportunity to enrich your knowledge about their many alternative uses in the kitchen, in household chores, for beauty treatments and more.
Index
Ecological cleaning
1. Do not discard the lemon peels after squeezing them. They will be very useful to you, also thanks to the juice still retained by the remaining pulp, however lucidand stove, cutlery and crockery.
2. The rinds left over from the preparation of a fresh lemonade will help you in polishing your own copper objects, which will return shiny as if they were new. This is a truly amazing grandmother's remedy.
3. If you want to refurbish the bottom of yours coffee maker, pour yourself some water, coarse salt and some chopped lemon peels. Let it sit for a few hours and rinse.
4. If on the bottom of yours kettle limestone has settled, bring the water to a boil in which you will have dipped some chopped lemon peels; then add half a glass of vinegar and leave to act for at least an hour. The limestone will dissolve as if by magic.
5. For the cleaning of sink caps and bathtubs, proceed by immersing them in water previously brought to a boil together with a handful of orange peel or lemon cut into small pieces. Let it rest for half an hour and you will see that the subsequent phases of their cleaning will be easier for you since the limescale residues will have almost vanished.
6. Per polish shoes use the banana peels. How? Read a little here. Guaranteed result.
In the kitchen
1. Before proceeding with your citrus juice, grate the peels and, if you do not need it at the moment, freeze them. You can use them in the future when in the recipe you want to make there are peels of oranges, tangerines or lemons among the ingredients.
2. Use the lemon zest, chopped or cut into strips for the preparation of Limoncello. Dip the peel of 5 lemons in 500 ml of good taste alcohol and leave to rest in an airtight glass jar for a week. Filter everything and add to a syrup prepared by heating over low heat and mixing 500 ml of water and 300 g of sugar with a wooden spoon. Transfer the limoncello into glass bottles and store in the cellar or refrigerator.
3. Prepare a citrus flavored oil it's just as simple. You will need it to dress your summer salads giving them an extra touch of flavor. Leave a tightly closed glass jar containing 500 ml of extra virgin olive oil and four tablespoons of chopped orange or lemon peel to rest in the dark for fifteen days. Remember to shake the jar once a day. After the set time has elapsed, all you have to do is filter your oil with the help of a colander and pour it into dark glass bottles.
4. The peel of citrus fruits can be preserved after having left them to dry and have reduced them to powder with the help of a food processor. You will have thus obtained the your lemon or orange powder, which you can use as a condiment in various dishes or as an extra touch for desserts and fruit salads. Keep it in tightly closed glass jars.
5. Finely chop some lemon peels after leaving them to dry in the air or in the oven, at a low temperature and mix them with coarse salt. Transfer everything into glass jars that you will leave to rest for a few days so that the lemon aroma spreads. You will have thus obtained an excellent aromatic lemon salt.
6. You can also get lemon flavored pepper by adding lemon powder to your jar of ground or whole black pepper.
7. If you have purchased any organic potatoes, do not throw away the skins but cut them into strips and cook them in the oven or fry them as if they were French fries.
8. The skins of carrots, onions and potatoes can be finely chopped and added to other vegetables in the preparation of broth or homemade vegetable cube.
9. Add chopped lemon peels to the bottom of the jar sugar cane it will help you to ensure that it maintains the right humidity, avoiding the formation of lumps.
10. The apple peels they can be left to dry and then used for the preparation of an excellent product brew so you just have to immerse them in boiling water, let them rest for five minutes and filter. Dried lemon or orange peels can be used to enrich your favorite infusions.
Do-it-yourself
1. The pomegranate peels can be used to get one natural dye for fabrics with shades tending to yellow or light orange. Dip the peels of several pomegranates into a stainless steel pot containing boiling water. Let it rest overnight, bring to a boil again and then remove the skins. It's time to soak the fabric you want to dye and leave it to rest for at least a whole day until you get the shade you prefer.
2. Dried and chopped citrus peels can be used as ingredients for the preparation of fragrant potpourri itogether with flower petals and spices such as cinnamon or cloves.
3. Orange peels can be the starting point for creation of fantastic earrings, of which a user has offered us a wonderful example.
4. From another of our creative reader, comes a wonderful idea to use citrus peels for creation of wedding favors of sure effect, as well as economic. You can admire them here.
Beauty
1. The potato peels applied on eye contour they can help you reduce any swelling caused by fatigue or stress and unsightly "bags".
2. The banana peels they will be able to help you in performing a exfoliating massage on the skin of the body. Just pour a little sugar on their inside and rub them gently on the areas to be smoothed.
3. After you have prepared your sauce guacamole, don't throw it away avocado peel, but rub a few bits on your face for an instant refreshing effect. Did you know that if you have a sunny balcony, you might want to try growing avocado at your home?
4. For a delicate one face scrub, gently rub bits of orange peel or pomegranate.
5. You want to give gods golden highlights in your hair? So prepare a infusion of onion peels to be used for the last rinse and let your hair dry preferably in the sun.
6. Potato peels, thanks to the starch contained in them, are finally the quickest remedy to apply on the skin to relieve pain and redness caused by a burn.
Marta Albè
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