- Use of mandarin crusts
- Mandarin peel and beauty
- Cooking mandarin tincture: 3 prescriptions
- Contraindications
Mandarin is one of the most favorite fruits of children and adults. In addition to the tremendous taste, he can boast of healing qualities. This strengthening of immunity, the fight against colds, flu, and also a soothing and antiseptic effect. The flesh of citrus is rich in phytoncides and vitamin C, but most of the nutrients found in the skin are pectins, vitamins A and P, essential oils, carotene, antioxidants and much more.
Tincture on mandarin crusts, decorating many tables on New Year's Eve, in addition to good mood can give a person something more - to strengthen his health.
Benefits of Mandarin Crusts
Mandarin peel is respected in folk medicine. It is actively used against many ailments.
For colds and bronchitis
Dry crushed crusts( 3 items of a spoonful) pour boiling water( 2 cups) and insist for 2 hours. In the strained infusion, add honey( 2 tablespoons) and take 0.5 cup 4 times a day. The broth produces an expectorant effect.
With increased blood sugar level
Peel three mandarins and fill with a liter of water and boil. The resulting broth, take a couple of teaspoons 3 times a day to reduce blood sugar.
To strengthen the immunity
To increase the resistance of the immune system will help tangerine tincture on vodka. For its preparation 2 tbsp. Spoon a crushed peel with a glass of good vodka and hold for 1-1.5 weeks. Ready drink drink three times a day for 20 drops before you start eating.Anti-inflammatory effect of
Mandarin crust( 100 g) and licorice root( 20 g) finely chop, pour water( 2 cups) and boil on a moderate flame for about 30 minutes. Cook the broth and drink in two meals in the morning and in the evening. It has anti-inflammatory properties, heals mastitis.
Attention! Decoction, infusion and tincture on tangerines relieve nausea and vomiting, bloating, relieve pain in the abdomen, restore nails and skin. Their calming properties are high for insomnia, stress, nervous tension.
Mandarin peel and beauty
Orange fruit buckles also made their way into cosmetology. It is used against stretch marks and cellulite, for all-round skin care.
Invigorating tonic
To prepare a refreshing and cleansing tonic, pour the tangerine peel with cold water and leave for 24 hours. Finish the face 2 times a day with a ready-made remedy. The skin will acquire a pearly radiance, irritation and black dots will disappear.
Rejuvenating mask
Fruit the fruit in the blender to a powdery state.1 teaspoon of the resulting mass, combine with 1 teaspoon of sour cream and egg yolk. Blend the mixture thoroughly and apply on face for 15 minutes. The mask rejuvenates, cleans and tones up the skin.
Cooking tangerine tincture: 3 recipes
Delicious tangerine tincture on alcohol does not require the presence of the fruit itself, it can be made from peel. It is beautiful not only for its exquisite taste and aroma, but also for the body: healing of the cold, acceleration of metabolic processes, improvement of appetite, antiseptic effect.
Classical tincture
Required ingredients:
- mandarin crusts - 150 g;
- coffee beans - 2 pcs.;
- alcohol or vodka - 500 ml.
Preparation process: cut the peel into pieces, beat with boiling water and put in a glass jar or bottle. Vodka heated to 60 degrees and sent there. Finish the procedure with roasted coffee beans. Cap tightly and leave to infuse for a month. Before use, strain.
Warning! The quality of the drink often depends on a good alcoholic base. If you use vodka, buy expensive, without any impurities. Alcohol should be previously diluted with water to 40-45 degrees.
Mandarin Vodka
Along with a classic drink, the tangerine tincture or, as it is also called, mandarin vodka, has gained wide popularity. It is a worthy alternative to the above recipe and even surpasses it in taste.
The main drink participants:
- mandarin crusts - 50 g( this is a peel of about 8 medium fruits);
- fructose - 2 teaspoons;
- juice of pulp of mandarins - 80 g;
- alcohol - 1 liter.
Cooking Instructions:
- Separate the white peel from the tangerine peel so that the drink does not become bitter. Freshly squeezed fruit pulp juice in a refrigerator - for clarification.
- Pour finely chopped 95% alcohol and leave to infuse for 3 weeks. Instead of alcohol, you can use vodka, adding to it pharmacy alcohol for the fortress. At the exit, you should get an alcoholic base, a strength above 45 degrees.
- After 21 days, filter the drink and bring it up to 45% with water. Add the mandarin juice and fructose.
- If the tincture on the tangerine crust becomes cloudy, lighten it with a pasteurized 2.5% milk( 70 ml).Milk instantly curl, eliminate the turbidity and give the drink a special taste.
As a result of all efforts, you will acquire light mandarin vodka with a mild flavor and New Year's fragrance. Alcohol in it is absolutely not felt. Keep the tincture should not be longer than 4 weeks.
Spicy mandarin liqueur
A fragrant tangerine-based tincture with the addition of spices is prepared easily and simply.
You will need the following ingredients for 1.5 liters of drink:
- mandarins - 10 pieces;
- cinnamon - 2 pods;
- vanilla - 2 pods cut in half;
- bad quality - 4 pieces;
- fine sugar - 600 g;
- vodka or alcohol - 1 liter.
In addition, prepare a 2-liter glass jar with a hermetically sealed cover.
Fragrant tincture of tangerines on vodka is made as follows:
- Empty the tangerines from the peel and the white part of the peel( so that the drink does not bitter).Cork put in a jar, pre-sterilized, add spices and vodka. Cap the bottle and insist for 7 days, shaking occasionally.
- After this period, dissolve the sugar in 0.5 liters of boiling water. Syrup pour into a jar of tincture and leave for another 7 days, shaking the dishes once a day.
- Pour the finished beverage into a clean glassware. Close tightly and store in a room with low temperatures for up to six months.
Warning! Broken tangerine tincture is suitable for use only 30 days. After that, it can be considered spoiled.
Contraindications
Mandarins irritate the mucous membrane of the stomach, intestines and kidneys, therefore it is not recommended:
- for gastritis with increased acidity of the digestive juice;
- with gastric and duodenal ulcers;
- for colitis, enteritis and acute inflammation of the intestine;
- for hepatitis, cholecystitis and acute nephritis.
Mandarin tincture on alcohol or vodka is a tasty and healthy drink. But do not abuse it, otherwise you can get food poisoning, headaches, nausea.