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What can be made from watermelon and melon peels: candied fruits, masks, jam
Juicy pulp is considered the main value of summer treats. Here we throw out the rest, without any doubts. But in vain.
Watermelon and melon peels can be used in home cosmetology and medicine, make jam from them or make candied fruits. What we arrogantly call scraps contains sugars, dietary fiber, macronutrients, antioxidants, pectins, chlorophyll, amino acids, and other active ingredients. From the crusts, brilliant masks for the skin are obtained, which moisturize, even out the tone, and give elasticity. A decoction of watermelon peels is advised for dysbiosis, colitis, obesity.
Have you ever tried watermelon rinds? But they are really tasty. Place the sliced crusts in a blender. Let them be accompanied by lemon, cucumber, crushed ice, sugar to taste and a little greens. After drinking such a cocktail, you will make your body happy with a shock dose of vitamins C, B1, B2, carotene, folic and pantothenic acids.
Take a kilogram of melon crusts, a kilogram of sugar, ½ tsp. citric acid and vanilla to taste. Remove the peel from the peels, cut the white part into small cubes, cover with sugar and leave cool for 2 hours. Put the future jam on fire, bring to a boil, turn off and leave for 10 hours. Repeat the process twice, adding vanilla and citric acid one last time. Place in sterilized jars and cover with lids.
For a kilo of watermelon peels, you will need 1,5 kilograms of sugar and one lemon. Remove the green edge, cut the crusts into small pieces, add sugar and refrigerate for 12 hours. Next, cook the watermelon rind with sugar over medium heat for 20 minutes, add the lemon, chopped with the rind, and cook for another 5 minutes. Let the mixture steep for 4 hours, then bring the jam to a boil again and boil for another 15 minutes. Place in sterilized jars and cover with lids.
For five kilograms of watermelon or melon rinds, you need one kilogram of sugar and one lemon. Cut off the skin from the crusts and cut the light part into cubes. Dip in boiling water with two tablespoons of lemon juice for five minutes. Throw in a colander, pour over with cold water and pat dry.
Boil a syrup with 750 grams of sugar and 0,5 liters of water. Pour the mixture over the watermelon peels, bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes. Let it brew overnight and repeat the cooking procedure twice more. For the third time, add 2 tablespoons of lemon juice. Throw the finished mixture in a colander and let the liquid drain. Preheat the oven to 40 ° C and bake future candied fruits in it for an hour. After taking out, sprinkle with sugar, leave to dry for three days and enjoy the delicacy.
Tie fresh watermelon rinds to your temples for headaches and migraines.
Bandage your joints with watermelon peels to help reduce inflammation and ease pain.
Apply a wet watermelon or melon rind to a wound or bruise – it will heal faster. You can also apply a compress with a healing broth of melons on the damage.
With bronchitis and sore throat, a compress from melon peels or its juice, applied to the chest and throat, helps well. If you have a runny nose and nosebleeds, put 2-3 drops of melon rind juice into your nose.
Burnt in the sun? Gruel from the white part of the watermelon rinds will help to get rid of unpleasant sensations. Leave the mixture on for about an hour, then rinse off and reapply. Repeat until the redness subsides. Want to whiten and rejuvenate your face? Pour the same gruel with water, let it brew for half an hour and boldly apply it on your face.
Do you have freckles and age spots after relaxing in the sun? Three times a day for 15 minutes, apply a slurry of cut melon rinds to your face and rub the skin with watermelon rind juice. After that, the face should be rinsed with water. The skin will become lighter, tightened and rejuvenated. Also, the juice from the watermelon peel is excellent in the fight against inflammation and acne.
Do you want to preserve youth and health? Pass the melon rind and rind through a juicer. Drink half a glass of the resulting juice once a day, and you will remain invariably young and beautiful for many years.
Finally – a secret for real housewives. To tender even the toughest meats, add melon rind to the pot as you cook.
Salad bowl, jug or freezer
If you carefully cut out the middle of the watermelon or melon, you can serve fruit salad in the resulting container! In such an extraordinary dish, food will be even tastier.
Also, using your hands and a small faucet from a watermelon or melon, you can build a jug. Just cut out the core as carefully as possible so that the “dam” does not break through at the most unexpected moment.
Want to keep a bottle of water or wine cold? Pour ice into a watermelon or melon “container” and put a bottle of drink there.