holiday scent potpourri pot

How To Make holiday scent potpourri pot

• Step 1
  Start heating a slow cooker. (I use a 1.5-quart size, but you can use any size you like or use a big pan on the back of the stove, increase the ingredients, and just keep adding water.)
• Step 2
  Cut the apple and the orange into wedges. Dip the apple wedges into the lemon juice to help keep them from turning brown.
• Step 3
  Put the apple wedges, the broken cinnamon sticks, the allspice and the lemon juice into a small slow cooker. Squeeze the orange wedges over the pot so that some of the juice is released.
• Step 4
  (Optional, but pretty: Push some of the whole cloves into the rind of the orange wedges.) Put the orange wedges and the rest of the whole cloves into the pot.
• Step 5
  Add enough boiling (or very hot) water to fill the pot. After about an hour, go outside for five minutes and come back in. Inhale. Enjoy!
• Step 6
  I've found that if I heat the pot up every day, I can keep the same potful of ingredients going a long time without them spoiling. Just keep adding water. It will get ugly and dark, but it will still smell good. Hide it in a back corner of your kitchen! :-) **Just don't forget it and let it boil dry--especially if you're using the stove-top method! However, I usually get disgusted with the murky mixture after a couple of weeks and toss it out and start over. It's fairly inexpensive.
• Step 7
  This mixture is very adaptable. Use what you have...a lemon instead of an orange; apple juice instead of an apple; skip the allspice if you don't have any. CINNAMON & CLOVES ARE THE KEY INGREDIENTS! I will say that ground spices don't work well because the fragrance dissipates in a day or two.
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