Orange Circles
Remember the eight pounds of oranges I didn’t want to eat?
When I was fourteen I often babysat a sweet little boy in Alabama. (Um yeah…I just did the math and he’s driving now!) One Christmas his mom had stacks of orange slices drying on all the countertops in their kitchen. She was making potpourri.
I thought of her and decided to give it a try.
I sliced the oranges in quarter-inch thick round slices and laid them out flat on a cookie sheet. Then I set the oven to 200 degrees and baked them overnight and well into the morning, turning them occasionally.
I threw in a few grapefruit slices too just for fun. (I know…I know…I live on the edge.)
Aren’t they pretty?
Four hundred pieces of cinnamon sticks are en route to me now. I’ll mix the two together with a sprinkle of whole cloves for a nice potpourri to simmer through the holidays.
The oranges were out in my kitchen today when a sweet fourteen year old girl arrived to babysit my little boy this afternoon.
Funny how life makes one big circle.