Mandarin orange in honey fruit enzyme

The parentals bought THREE huge cartons of mandarin oranges for Chinese New Year this year. Now we have too many and they're trying to make me eat more of them, or take the oranges to the office for others to eat.

I decided to just peel four of them to make some fruit enzyme (which concentrates the good stuff so that apparently, the health benefits are a lot more or a lot more concentrated).

The MOST important thing to note when making fruit enzyme is that the fruits must be absolutely dried. If not, mold will grow.

I don't have a dehydrator (and frankly, I prefer not to use one because it uses electricity), so I just laid all the slices out on flat places and covered the plates with a food cover.

Since I did it last night and only filled the jar up this afternoon, they've been air-dried for about 13 hours.

Dry enough, I hope.

Shall let everything infuse for about a month or so (assuming mold doesn't form THIS time), and then start taking the honey with my water kefir (and possibly feed the orange slices to my worms).

I'm tempted to start another jar with another combination of fruits and veggies, but meh...I might not be able to finish eating it so fast anyway.

( Fruit enzyme in the making )