Simple Holiday Stovetop Potpourri
It’s so easy, and with all of the ingredients in your kitchen, your home will smell like the holidays with no effort at all! Plus, bag them up for the cutest hostess or ‘thinking of you’ gift. Cinnamon, spice, and everything nice.
- Prep Time: 5 min
- Cook Time: 5 hours
- Total Time: 5 hours 5 minutes
- Yield: 1 holiday smelling home 1x
- Category: Gifts
Ingredients
- 1 cup fresh cranberries
- 1T whole cloves
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 4 orange peel strips (use a peeler to peel off long pieces of orange peel)
- 1 sprig fresh rosemary (optional)
Instructions
Place all ingredients into a saucepan. Cover with 5 cups of water. Bring to a boil on the stovetop. Once it’s boiling, reduce the heat to low (barely on) and simmer for hours. Check the water each hour, adding more as needed (you never want it to dry up).
To make gift bags, put ingredients in a plastic or cello bag and place in a gift bag. Attach a gift tag with the directions.
Notes
Put this on the stove on Thanksgiving or Christmas morning to set the festive mood and aroma. Use it after finishing the Thanksgiving meal as an air cleanser, so to say, before dessert. Throw it on whenever you need a little bump in holiday spirit.
This recipe is fluid and can be changed with pantry’s contents. Leave something out, add something in. It’s going to smell yummy!
If making gift bags, leave out the things that are perishable, like the rosemary, as it won’t look green by the time they use it. The cranberries will be fine for a few days, but assemble the bags close to the giving away date. Suggest refrigerating the bag until use.
For my gift bags, I peeled orange peel strips the night before and let them to dry on the counter before adding to the bags.
If you want to make something drinkable, sub the water for apple juice or cider. Follow directions, but only simmer for 15-30 minutes. Take it off the heat, pour it into mugs, and enjoy.
Find it online: https://www.flourandco.com/simple-holiday-stovetop-potpourri/