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What does Chenpi do at home?

How to make tangerine peel?

Chenpi, for young people in today's society, some people really don't know what Chenpi is. I may have drunk it when I was cooking herbs. I don't know what it was like.

Chenpi is a kind of fruit picked from ripe oranges, peeled and dried or dried. Chenpi can be used as medicine and tastes bitter, pungent and warm. Besides decocting medicine, it can also be made into food with other ingredients.

So how to make dried tangerine peel!

First, buy some fresh oranges, big and thick. Eat the fruits first, then take their skins away, boil a pot of hot water, and soak the orange peel in the pot for half an hour.

Step 2: After half an hour, pour out the hot water in the pot, fill a small pot with clear water, find a toothbrush, scrub the impurities on the orange and soak for about ten minutes.

Step three, take the orange peel out to bask in the sun, and remember that the white part is facing up.

Step 4: Keep the dried orange peel in a container for two months. At this time, there is still some water in the orange peel, so it will be soft when it is taken out.

Step 5: Take the orange peel out of the container and put it in the sun to dry thoroughly, and it will soon lose moisture. Then, you can choose to cut it into blocks or strips, take the container and seal it. The production of dried tangerine peel is simple, but it takes a long time. If you need it urgently, you can go to the drugstore to buy prepared dried tangerine peel.