Now you can use the orange peels as well.
Orange oil is an essential oil found within the skin of an orange. Orange oil has many practical uses: as a fragrance and inhalant, for wood cleaning, degreasing, strain removal and insect control. You can extract the oil from the skin without difficult and complex equipment.
Instructions
1. Peel the skin off the oranges, making sure to pile the skins together.
2. Put the orange peels and the water in the pressure cooker. Add more or less water or orange peels to the mix to change the concentration of the oil. A rule of thumb is two ounces of orange peels for every gallon of water. That equates to 1/2 ounce per every quart of water.
3. Turn on the pressure cooker and allow the orange peels to simmer at a low temperature for an entire day.
4. Pour the contents into a strainer and use a bowl to collect the run-off, which is the oil. This oil might be thick or thin depending on the consistency and how much orange peels you added to the water.
5. Cool the oil down and then store the oil in the glass jar. Tighltly screw the lid onto the jar.
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