A couple years ago, me and my littles started creating stovetop potpourris during the winter months when our wood stove was pumping out the heat 24/7. We got pretty creative with some by adding lemon peels, snippets of pine and some mysterious items that left some questionable smells in our living room. Here's one of our favourite mixes for you to try out during this cold snap to simmer atop your wood stove, burner or crockpot. Enjoy!
First collect your spices and either dry out your produce or if using right away, keep fresh (the cranberries look much prettier when fresh). You can add some bits of pine, some whole nutmeg and lemon peels.
I used dried cranberries as we will be gifting some of our mix and have noticed that when simmering, it creates a cloudy appearance to the water...still smells great but does not look as nice. We keep our mix going on our wood stove for up to a week while topping up the spices and keeping the water level up. It gets a very robust scent that is lovely.
Gift it - put some of your spice mix in a glass mason jar, add some pretty Christmas paper to the lid or fabric, wrap with twine and spread the joy!
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