How to Make Your Own Christmas Potpourri Recipe - The How-To Home (2024)

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Thinly slice an orange, lemon, apple and pear, and place them on a metal cooking rack. Using your oven's dehydrate setting, cook the fruit slices until they are fully dried, making sure to flip them every half hour.

Thinly slice an orange, lemon, apple and pear, and place them on a metal cooking rack. Using your oven's dehydrate setting, cook the fruit slices until they are fully dried, making sure to flip them every half hour.

Originally Answered: What is the best way to get your house to smell like Christmas? I love to simmer a mixture of cinnamon, allspice, and cloves in some water on the stove. You can add dried apples, if you'd like. There are all sorts of candles that smell like Christmas, if you don't mind candles.

Two trusty ways to make your potpourri smell stronger are to add more essential oil to the mixture every so often or to agitate it. Shake the container or stir the potpourri to release more scent.

How to make holiday stove top potpourri. Begin first by washing and drying your Ball jars and lids. To fill an 8 ounce jar you will need about 3 orange slices, 3 sprigs of fresh or dried rosemary, 6 star anise, 3 cinnamon sticks, 14 cup cranberries, and a tablespoon or so of cloves.

The holiday season is filled with nostalgia and notes of spice, evergreen, and peppermint. To infuse your home with natural, clean fragrance that speaks to this time of year, look to foraged items such as pinecones, citrus fruits, whole cloves, and balsam boughs.

Surely a smell will come to everyone's mind: cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, snow, hot wine, vanilla, ginger, orange, ground coffee beans, honey, cold fresh air, chocolate…

To a pot of water, add a bit of molasses (no need to add a lot, maybe 1/4-1/2 cup depending on how much water you use), sliced fresh ginger, a whole nutmeg that's been grated a bit, cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, and whole allspice. This smells exactly like my favorite gingerbread cookie recipe.

How long does potpourri last? Homemade potpourri will last around three months. You can add drops of your favorite essential oils to help the fragrance last longer.

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If you're a candle person, you'll love this potpourri. The best part is, you can really use whatever you have on hand. The must-haves in my opinion are cinnamon, citrus, ginger and vanilla. Nothing makes it feel more like the holidays than those smells.

Fill a fillable light bulb-shaped Christmas ornament with cookie decorating items such as sprinkles and edible pearls. Write instructions for making cookies on a gift tag, Attach ornament, tag, and a cookie cutter to the jar with red rickrack. Get the recipe for Sugar Cookies.

To a pot of water, add a bit of molasses (no need to add a lot, maybe 1/4-1/2 cup depending on how much water you use), sliced fresh ginger, a whole nutmeg that's been grated a bit, cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, and whole allspice. This smells exactly like my favorite gingerbread cookie recipe.

Spread the rose petals in a thin layer over the tray. You can also experiment with drying some whole roses or rose buds. Next, either place the petals in a warm, dark, dry spot for 2-3 days or in a very cool oven (as cool as your oven will go) until dried. Once the petals have dried place in a glass jar.