Watermelon since ancient times is a favorite summer relief products. But people are mostly freshly eaten melon flesh, melon rind when the waste discarded. In fact, the watermelon rind by appropriate processing, its utilization value is very high, the following methods can be referred to:

Watermelon Cuiyi choose the green skin species, the melon will be washed, with the planing knife will be the epidermis green containing wax green skin layer planing down, dry, that is, for the watermelon Cuiyi (or known as the watermelon green). Taste sweet and cool, decoction drink tea, can cure summer fever and thirst, edema, mouth and tongue sores, sunstroke and autumn and winter due to dry climate caused by dry throat, cough and other diseases. Watermelon sauce with thick skin species, remove the surface layer of green skin, melon flesh, the middle layer of melon rind washed, cut into pieces, placed into the meat grinder grinding (grinding plate aperture 9 cm to 11 cm), will be stranded into granular flesh and skin in time to add sugar to cook and concentrate. Cooking process: 10 kilograms of watermelon rind meat, 15 kilograms of sugar, starch syrup 1.2 kilograms, 110 grams of onion, 72 grams of citric acid, lemon flavor 12 mg, lemon yellow pigment 0.5 grams. First sugar with 65% to 72% of the sugar solution, take half poured into the stainless steel steam jacket pot, and then crushed melon meat into the mix, boil 10 to 15 minutes, and then the remaining sugar and starch syrup to join together, boil and concentrate to soluble solids up to 69% to 70%, take the melted filtered onion liquid to join, continue to cook for 5 to 10 minutes to soluble solids to 67% to 68%. When you can add citric acid, coloring, flavoring, mixing well out of the pot, quickly loaded into the four screw mouth glass jar, while hot, the lid screwed tightly, then in the 80 ℃ to 85 ℃ of hot water sterilization for 12 minutes, remove the 60 ℃, 40 ℃ of hot water in turn cooled 10 minutes, that is, bottled watermelon sauce.

Watermelon rind vinegar raw materials: watermelon rind 6 kilograms, sorghum sugar 10 kilograms (grain sugar is also OK), 4 kilograms of salt, you can make vinegar 50 kilograms. First wash the watermelon rind, boiled, cooled

Canned plus curved pounded and mixed, fermentation 5 days after mixing sugar, stirring once a day, four or five days after adding salt, 6 days out of the billet, and then 1/3 of the billet into the smoked pot smoked for 4 days, and then two thirds of the billet with raw water filtered and boiled, added to the smoked billet, filtered into a tasty sour vinegar. In order to make the vinegar aroma does not deteriorate, according to 0.5 kg of vinegar plus two or three drops of alcohol ratio, the alcohol drops in the vinegar, or two or three drops of ordinary soju can be

Watermelon rind with external application of the face, you can from the outside to increase the skin's nutrients, promote the metabolism of the facial skin, is conducive to the skin moisturizing and tenderness, and can prevent the summer sunshine caused by too much facial hyperpigmentation. The method is to use warm water to wash the face, with the leftover watermelon rind in the face along the direction of the muscles in turn gently rubbed again, 15 minutes after the use of warm water to wash the juice of the melon rind, 1-2 times a day.