Cranberry & Cinnamon Stove Top Potpourri

December 12, 2013

Candles. What i like is the allure of warmth, scent, and coziness that draws me in. BUT I’m also typically less than impressed with their potency. Also they’re expensive. To get your whole house to smell good you’d need several. Perhaps this is when you want to go for a simmering stove top potpourri. They get several rooms (for us, the whole apartment) in one sweep and are made with simple, inexpensive grocery store items.

This cranberry & cinnamon one has been my favorite for Christmas time.

CRANBERRY & CINNAMON STOVE TOP POTPOURRI from Rachel Schultz-7

CRANBERRY & CINNAMON STOVE TOP POTPOURRI

2 oranges, sliced
3 cinnamon sticks
1 cup cranberries
3 teaspoons ground clove
2 teaspoons nutmeg
2 sprigs rosemary

Place ingredients into pot and fill with water to about 1 inch below brim and simmer. Mine lasted about 3 days.

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CRANBERRY & CINNAMON STOVE TOP POTPOURRI
 
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Ingredients
  • 2 oranges, sliced
  • 3 cinnamon sticks
  • 1 cup cranberries
  • 3 teaspoons ground clove
  • 2 teaspoons nutmeg
  • 2 sprigs rosemary
Instructions
  1. Place ingredients into pot and fill with water to about 1 inch below brim and simmer. Mine lasted about 3 days.

Adapted from One Good Thing.

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  • Cathy

    I love your recipes and ideas, big interest!!

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  • Louise

    Hi, I will make this stove top potpourri. I love all these scents. Thank you.

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  • Kristin

    I am a bit confused with these instructions… Does this sit on the stove, simmering, for 3 days? I was under the impression this could be made and given for a gift?

    • Elizabeth

      No do not leave it simmering day and night, shut it off at night.

      I’m sure you could make it as a gift SAME DAY but I don’t see why you’d want to give a gift that needed refrigeration, that’s kinda weird. She didn’t indicate that it was for gift giving purposes

      • Crystal

        So just leave it on the stove top for 3 days, but obviously shut it off overnight, but then just turn it back on in the morning or store in a container overnight in fridge and put back in pot in the morning?

    • Michelle

      I do understand some people have to have numbered step by step instructions on cooking some things but im pretty positive common sense should prevail to know not to leave something, even simmering for 3 days straight, the fluid would evaporate and could cause a fire… only leave simmering if your home and checking every so often.

  • Star Rose

    Can I do this cranberry, cinnamonpotpouirri in crock pit??

    • Elizabeth

      Yes! That’s what I did.

    • Star Rose

      Can u put this cranberry, orange in a crock.pot?

  • Heidi

    Do the cranberries add to the smell or just for pretty?

    • Rachel Schultz

      Both!

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  • Leslie Sowders

    can this be done in a crock pot?

    • Rachel Schultz

      Yes, I would just lots of water.

    • Elizabeth

      Most assuredly! I loved it.

  • So making this for our pre-Christmas family get tother tomorrow! Thanks for the recipe, can’t wait to try it! :)

  • Lisa

    Love this !!!!my hubby says it smells like a ham cooking to him.

    • Rachel Schultz

      So fun! Haha.

  • Elizabeth

    Omg it’s amazing! Made my whole house smell like eggnog! I love it!

  • tina

    Anybody try this on top of a wood burning stove after you get it simmering

  • These are all of my favorite scents, can’t wait to try this!

  • Sandi Williams

    This is a great idea. I have put a pot on to simmer. The aroma is overtaking the O’de Doge’. Thank you. Now, what is the spring concoction?

  • Amanda

    Have you tried this in a crockpot? I’m wanting to do it leading up to and the day of Thanksgiving, but don’t want it on the stove top with everything else cooking… I may try to modify it if you don’t have any suggestions.

    • Rachel Schultz

      I am not sure. Please let me know how it goes for you!

  • Erin

    P.S. ADD SUGAR!!! about a cup!!!

  • Erin

    I have done this recipe at the holidays for years and YES- we drink it!!
    Put your fresh cranberries in a pan filled with water. Place the lid on top and boil until all cranberries have exploded! Now add:
    cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, orange and lemon slices. Let steep all day if you’d like! Before drinking, strain out everything but the cinnamon sticks. We drink it ver ice or HOT, like tea!!! Delicious!!!

  • Monica B.

    This smells soon good .It’s gotten me in the holiday mood.

  • Sorry, but I didn´t get your description. You say you simmer the stuff, all right. But for how long? Surely not for three days without ceasing? Aside from the energy waste the liquid would be vanished after a day, I guess?

    • Rachel Schultz

      Yes, we simmer for three days, turning it off at night and refilling the water as needed.

  • Erica

    This is such a good idea ! I love candles myself and am always looking for a homemade idea! After you make this what can you do with it? Do you put it in a jar to keep the smell alive ??

    • Rachel Schultz

      I’m not aware of anything. We usually just pitch it

  • Jaclyn

    Can you do anything with this when it’s done acting as potpourri? Sounds like it’d taste as delicious as it smells.

    • Rachel Schultz

      Not that I know of! It gets pretty mushy near the end.

    • Stephanie

      I remove the cinnamon sticks and put everything else down the garbage disposal…smells really nice!

  • YES! I too, love candles. I was actually never allowed to burn them before I got married because my mom was afraid of our house burning down & hated all scents/perfumes. A good deal of my wedding registry was candles ;) I’m definitely going to give this a go.

  • Rachel Schultz

    Rosemary. Thanks, I updated the ingredients.

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