How to Make Winter-scented Potpourri in Four Easy Steps

Mix up your own natural potpourri with fruit, pine cones and spices to perfume your home or give as a gift

Manuela Fucà2 December, 2016

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My daughter and I love to collect pine cones and decorate our home with them in the autumn. In the winter, we use them to create Christmas decorations and an enticing, all-natural potpourri. Here’s how to make it in four simple steps.

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Collect beautiful pine cones in different shapes, then combine them with an apple, an orange, star anise and cinnamon to give your home the aroma of a cake baking in the oven on a chilly evening.

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Materials

1 apple
1 orange
Baking pan
Parchment paper
About 20 small pine cones
1 cup star anise pods
½ cup chopped cinnamon sticks

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1 Cut the apple and orange horizontally into 5mm slices and lay them out to dry for a day.

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2 The next day, lay the slices on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Bake at 110ºC for three to four hours.

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3 Turn off the oven, open the door and let the fruit slices cool.

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They will look like this after they have dried and cooled.

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4 On a large plate, combine the dried fruit with the pine cones, star anise and cinnamon.

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The result looks stunning, and the fragrance makes any corner of the house cosy. Mix the potpourri from time to time to release its aroma.

Tip You can put your potpourri in a glass jar and dress it up with a nice jute ribbon for a special gift.

Have you ever made your own potpourri? Share your tips in the Comments below.